Duty Quotes
The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.
Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
It's our Christian duty to offer spiritual worship to God that engages our minds, stirs our hearts & flows from our lips
We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.
Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.
Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.
We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
