Dean Koontz Quotes

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Diety.

People are supposed to be responsible.

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.