Duty Quotes

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

It is our first duty to serve society.

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

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.

Duty without love is deplorable.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

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

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

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

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

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

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.