Quotes about Duty
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
— James G. Frazer
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
— Walt Disney
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
— William Faulkner
Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
— Elbert Hubbard
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
— Abraham Lincoln
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
— CS Lewis
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
— Mark Twain
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
— Mark Twain
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greater number of men are merely corporals.
— Henry David Thoreau
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.
— Henry Ward Beecher