Duty Quotes

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

There is no moment without some duty.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.