Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Duty Quotes
DutySacrifice If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
CommitmentDutyFutureTransition Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
CountryDutyHonor Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
CommunityDutyFreedomPatriotismResponsibility We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
CelibacyDutyMarriageSelf-Control It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.
ConflictDutyFaithPerspective Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
ArtsCitizenshipCultureDutyLiterature To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
DutyEthical ReasoningMoralityPrinciple In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone.
CooperationDutyEthicsMaking A DifferenceNon-Cooperation If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
CourageDutyIntegrityPerseveranceResponsibility We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
AchievementDutyJusticePerseveranceResponsibility We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
BalanceContrastDutyEnduranceRelationship Dynamics A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
DomesticityDutyEveryday HeroismPerseveranceResponsibility The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
AccountabilityDutyPublic ServiceRepresentation My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
DutyGreatnessResponsibility Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
CommitmentDutyHonestyPassionPurpose If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
DutyFaithGuidanceTrustTruth He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
DutyFutilityGriefWar They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
ClarityDutyIntelligenceTruth We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
DutyIntegrityPerseveranceSilence To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
AccountabilityCourageDutyPublic SafetySacrifice Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
DutyPersonal GrowthResponsibilitySelf-DevelopmentSelf-Improvement Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
BalanceDisciplineDutyLoveParenting Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.
