Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

There are things that are more important than my personal happiness.

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

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

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

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

England expects that every man will do his duty.

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

I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

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

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

Tom Clarke is dead. He has not our responsibilities. Nobody will ever know what he would do for the situation did not arise for him. But is has risen for us and we must face it with our intelligence and conscious of our responsibility.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

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.

Even if the exercise of my responsibility becomes my burden, I’ll bear it. But I can tell you I am going to sleep well tonight knowing I’ve made the right decision.

I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.

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

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

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.