Quotes about Duty
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
— Graham Greene
When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
— St. John Chrysostom
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
— LM Montgomery
Well, one must be a slave to something in this kind of a world,' he said.
— LM Montgomery
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
— Justin Welby
Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rabbi Tarfon said: "You are not called upon to complete the task, yet you are not free to evade it." Whatever we do is only a partial fulfillment; the rest is completed by God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer
— Abraham Lincoln
THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION;...
— Abraham Lincoln
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer