Duty Quotes

"It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now."

"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"

"In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army."

"I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me."

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

G. K. Chesterton

"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."

Douglas MacArthur

"To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan."

"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"You must never so much as think whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."

Clara Barton

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."

Confucius

"To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high."

John McCrae

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, so near is God to man, when Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' the youth replies, 'I can.'"

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

"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present – I am rising to the work of a human being."

"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself."

Andrew Carnegie

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."

Saint Ambrose

"Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace."

"Remember, your work may be only to sweep a railway crossing, but it is your duty to keep it so clean that no other crossing in the world is as clean as yours."

M. Visvesvaraya

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep."

Robert Frost

"Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands."

Immanuel Kant

"If you salute your duty, you need not salute anybody, but if you pollute your duty, you have to salute everybody."