Duty Quotes

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.