Duty Quotes

"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."

"Duty, honor, country: those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."

Douglas MacArthur

"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life."

Theodore Roosevelt

"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."

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

"Don't give up the ship!"

James Lawrence

"To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields."

John McCrae

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

Robert Frost

"The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall."

Heraclitus

"Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in his country but with certain duties."

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

“This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.”

Mahabharata

“You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action.”

The Bhagavad Gita