Duty Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we…

— Theodore Roosevelt

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

— John Lancaster Spalding

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

— Louisa May Alcott

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on…

— Margaret Bourke-White

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

— George Eliot

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.

— William Arthur Ward

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It…

— John Dickinson

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is…

— Charles Murray

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of…

— Anonymous