Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

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.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

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

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

Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

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

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.