Duty Quotes

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!

Do well the duty that lies before you.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

My duty is to obey orders.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.