Frances Power Cobbe Quotes

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

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

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

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

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Duty is the essence of manhood.

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

Life is moral responsibility.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

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

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

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

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

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

We all have the duty to do good.