Duty Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

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

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

We all have the duty to do good.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.

It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.

As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] has a duty and obligation to abide by the law. And he's except from most all of these laws.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.