Robert Jordan Quotes

Duty is the essence of manhood.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

Life is lighter than a feather; duty is heavier than a mountain.

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

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Consult duty not events.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

There is no entitlement without a duty.

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain

I own frankly now that I am to engage, that what I may do may be reckoned and will be reckoned desperate. All appearances seem to be against me. Interest, prudence, and the obligations to you which I lie under, will prevent most people in my situation from taking a resolution that may probably end in my utter ruin. My life, my fortune, my expectations, the happiness of my wife and children are all at stake …, and yet a principle (what seems to me) honour, and my duty to King and Country, outweighs everything.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

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.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.