Duty Quotes

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

~ Jane Austen

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

~ Jane Austen

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

~ George Orwell

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

~ Audre Lorde

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

~ Criss Jami

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

~ Edward Abbey

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright

~ Blaise Pascal

On my honor, I will do my bestTo do my duty To God and my country

~ Boy Scouts Of America

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant,Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimentingWith various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to doThen you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

~ Stevie Smith

Leave fears aside, clean tears away! Tell God here I am, use me! and he'll give you the assignments that will make your life a fulfilled one. Now dress up to work!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is the duty of every wise person to seek out people with potential and freely guide them on the path of wisdom. By doing so, the wise leaders of the future are born, and the world will have a chance to mend itself.

~ Charbel Tadros

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

~ George Washington

We are meant to be.” He pressed his lips to mine again; against myself, against my worry, I once again succumbed to the power of his kiss. “I know that now. Our love is stronger than magic, stronger than the laws of all Feyland. It will survive this...whatever the future brings.” - Prince Kian, Silver Frost.

~ Kailin Gow

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.

~ Robertson Davies

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

~ Chester Nimitz

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.

~ Donna Tartt

I don’t know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani’sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children’s cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we’re doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?

~ Kamand Kojouri

His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling.He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.

~ Terry Goodkind

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

~ Tryon Edwards

The sole sacred duty is to fear God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

~ George Washington

Now if we only knew what it means to know, we would be conscious.

~ Atom Tate

The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil.

~ Ken Liu

If it has to be done, take the responsibility to do it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.

~ Abhijit Naskar

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.

~ Anonymous

Our higher duty is to fear God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

It is the common peoples duty to police the police.

~ Steven Magee

Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.

~ Sebastian Junger

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment. “I’ll sleep long and hard when I’m dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

~ Grace Draven

And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man I was listening had been in it and that despite his bravery the war had made him a coward and that if he did any more killing it would be wide-awake and in cold blood, and nobody would have the guts to send him to the electric chair because he had performed his duty toward his fellow men, which was to deny his own sacred instincts and so everything was just and fair because one crime washes away the other in the name of God, country and humanity, peace be with you all.

~ Henry Miller

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

~ John F. Kennedy

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.

~ Mary Balogh

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.

~ Patrick O'brian

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

~ Richard J. Maybury

It's the duty of every man to free himself. Never accept to live an underdog's life in god’s world.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana