No one should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke.
Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: This was their finest hour.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
If you salute your duty, you no need to salute anybody, but if you pollute your duty, you have to salute everybody.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: This was their finest hour.
