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

• resolution
• duty

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. Henry David Thoreau

• morals
• duty
• responsibility

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain

• discipline
• duty
• habit
• self improvement

Our country can not exist on the renunciation of the heroic souls of the past. Public service, from the action of the humblest voter to the most exalted office, can not be made a mere matter of hire and salary. The supporters of our institutions must be inspired by a more dominent motive than a conviction that their actions are going to be profitable. We can not lower our standards to what we think will pay, but we must raise them to what we think is right. It is only in that direction that we shall find true patriotism. Calvin Coolidge

• duty
• service
• patriotism

In our land the people rule. The great truth cannot be too often repeated that this nation is exactly what the people make it. It is necessary to realize that our duties are personal. Calvin Coolidge

• duty

The right action of all of us is made up of the right action of each one of us. Unless each of us is determined to meet the duty that comes to us, we can have no right to expect that others will meet the duties that come to them. Calvin Coolidge

• responsibility
• duty

It is exactly because we wish to keep our standing forces small that the average citizen must give some attention to military affairs, precisely as he gives some attention to other government affairs, in order that he may express a deliberate and informed judgment at the ballot box. Calvin Coolidge

• military
• duty

It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating. Calvin Coolidge

• duty

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. Joseph Newton

• duty

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him. Ben Ames Williams

• duty
• responsibility

To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage. Confucius

• duty

The eight greatest words ever put together in the English language: America, America, God shed His grace on thee...

A part of that grace is a responsibility I believe each of us has: to make sure we provide those who follow us with the same opportunities you and I were given by those who preceded us. That's uppermost among all that I've tried to do as a coach - I and thousands of other coaches and teachers that kids across this country have been fortunate enough to have at some point in their lives. Bobby Knight

• sports
• America
• duty
• responsibility
• coaching

This is the source.

Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Benjamin Franklin

• duty

This is the context.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. Nelson Rockefeller

• responsibility
• duty

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must understand the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine

• freedom
• duty

Real freedom is not freedom from, but freedom for. Robert Youngs

• freedom
• duty
• responsibility

A hundred times a day, I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving. Albert Einstein

• duty
• gratitude

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• duty

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. George Orwell

• duty

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way. Napoleon Hill

• dreams
• duty

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. William Somerset Maugham

• happiness
• duty
• purpose

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• fear
• work
• duty
• focus

Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy. Marcus Aurelius

• duty
• humility

This is the source.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw

• duty

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. P. J. O'Rourke

• freedom
• duty

Duty is the essence of manhood. George Patton

• duty

Remember that the chance to do the great heroic work may or may not come. If it does not come, then all that there can be to our credit is the faithful performance of every-day duty. That is all that most of us throughout our lives have the chance to do, and it is enough, because it is the beginning, because it means most for the Nation when done, and if the time for the showing of heroism does come you may guarantee that those who show it are most likely to be the people who have done their duty in average times as the occasion for doing the duty arose. Theodore Roosevelt

• heroes
• duty