Sense of Duty Quotes

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.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

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

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

I had to help them. There was no choice.

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

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

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

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.

I was covering the Manchester attack and was asked to stay another day and do the programme from there. But I had promised my little boy I would be at his sports day, and I had this really sharp sense that I needed to be there.

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

Duty is the essence of manhood.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

You have to live to the responsibility of the person who has won, which is even greater than the responsibility of a person who has lost.

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

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

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.