Duty Quotes

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

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

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.

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

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

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

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

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

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

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

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

Let every lion do his duty.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots