Duty Quotes

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

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.

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Love can do much, but duty more.

But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]

Duty is the demand of the hour.

What then is your duty? What the day demands.

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It is our first duty to serve society.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.