Duty Quotes

Duty Quote of the day

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.

I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.