Jane Austen Quotes

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

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.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe myself.

People are supposed to be responsible.

Duty is the essence of manhood.

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.

The true source of rights is duty.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

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

A man ought to do what he thinks is right

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!