Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

I feel it is an intensely disagreeable and unfortunate task which we cannot in honor shirk.

To a reluctant admission of the necessity for State action, we join a burning belief in duty.

Must we always do our duty? If so, how are we always to know what is our duty?

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.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

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

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

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

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

There is no moment without some duty.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

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

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.