Quotes about Duty

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Women's beauty doesn't belong to the women herself. She's the part of treasure, which she brings into the world. It's her duty to share it.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.