33 Inspiring Quotes On Duty

In our daily lives, the concept of duty often takes center stage, guiding our actions and decisions with a sense of responsibility and commitment. Whether it’s fulfilling obligations at work, supporting our loved ones, or contributing to our communities, the call to duty can be both challenging and fulfilling. This collection of 33 inspiring quotes on duty serves as a reminder of the noble path we tread when we choose to honor our commitments. Let these words of wisdom motivate and instill a deeper understanding of the significance of duty in our lives, as we strive to make meaningful contributions to the world around us.

1. “If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.” - Albert Einstein

2. “Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” - Abraham Lincoln

3. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” - Theodore Roosevelt

4. “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” - George Washington

5. “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” - Benjamin Franklin

6. “Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.” - George S. Patton Jr.

7. “I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.” - Ben Stein

8. “Non nobis solum nati sumus.(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

9. “Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

10. “You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families and ourselves, to take care of ourselves, to contribute to charity, that we have a duty to support a just and righteous law that is stable and predictable.” - Mark R. Levin

11. “Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.” - Sebastian Junger

12. “Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.” - Sivananda

13. “Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.” - G.K. Chesterton

14. “Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.” - Tryon Edwards

15. “Duty is what one expects from others.” - Oscar Wilde

16. “It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.” - George Eliot

17. “Each position has its corresponding duties.” - George Eliot

18. “A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.” - Winston S. Churchill

19. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright” - Blaise Pascal

20. “She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

21. “We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” - George Orwell

22. “God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.” - Chester Nimitz

23. “Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.” - Henri Frédéric Amiel

24. “The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love.One creates a man of honorable character―a life worth dying for.The other creates a vulnerable soul that madly yearns for either death or immortality.” - Richelle Goodrich

25. “Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.” - Mary Balogh

26. “Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.” - Jonathan Sacks

27. “From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off allhis deepest concerns and his fears for the future of the race. He had to respond to it, couldn't bear thepressure. Riding the wave, he found himself saying in a rush, "We live and die for our kind. The species is our firstand only concern. We fight every night and count the jars of thelessers we kill. Stealth is the way weprotect the civilians. The less they know about us, the safer they are. That is why we disappeared.” - J.R. Ward

28. “In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?In her contempt and dread of yielding to mere amorous weakness had she stifled and denied the cry of pity, the cry of conscience?To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite. To forgive wrongs darker than death or night. To defy power which seems omnipotent. To love and live to hope till hope creates from it's own wreck the thing it contemplates. Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent.This had been the higher, diviner way which she had missed, this obligation from the passion of the past which she had left unfulfilled, unaccepted.Now the misgiving arose in her whether she had mistaken arrogance for duty; whether, cleaving so closely to honor she had forgotten the obligation of mercy.” - Ouida

29. “She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any other thing she would have pardoned: infidelity, indifference, cruelty, any sins of manhood's caprice or passion, but who should pardon this? The sin was not alone against herself; it was against every law of decency and truth that ever she had been taught to hold sacred; it was against all those great dead, who lay with the cross on their breasts and their swords by their side, from whom she had received and treasured the traditions of honor and purity of race.It was those dead knights whom he had smote upon the mouth and mocked, crying to them: 'Lo! your place is mine; my sons will reign in your stead. I have tainted your race forever; for every my blood flows with yours!'The greatness of a race is a thing far higher than mere pride. Its instincts are noble and supreme. Its obligations are no less than its privileges; it is a great light which streams backward through the darkness of the ages, and if by that light you guide not your footsteps, then are you thrice accursed, holding as you do that lamp of honor in your hands.So she had always thought, and now he had dashed the lamp in the dust.--"Wanda” - Ouida

30. “[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.” - Edward Abbey

31. “In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty). In French, the word for ‘Wife’ is the same as the word for ‘Woman.’ En anglais, nous n’avons aucun mot semblable à l’exquise ‘Jouissance!” - Roman Payne

32. “Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas” - Dean Koontz

33. “It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.” - Criss Jami