Quotes about Duty

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

God uses not so much gifts for evangelism (though there is a biblical gift of evangelism) but the faithfulness of thousands and millions of Christians who would never say evangelism is their gift. Your conclusion that you are not gifted for a particular task does not absolve you of responsibility to obey. You may conclude that evangelism is not your gift, but it is still your duty. Not

The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service

For the Principles of the matters of moral action are the final cause of them: now to the man who has been corrupted by reason of pleasure or pain the Principle immediately becomes obscured, nor does he see that it is his duty to choose and act in each instance with a view to this final cause and by reason of it: for viciousness has a tendency to destroy the moral Principle: and so Practical Wisdom must be a state conjoined with reason, true, having human good for its object, and apt to do.