Duty Quotes

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

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.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.

Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

Killing is killing whether done for duty, profit or fun.

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.