Duty Quotes

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Families are the Lord's workshop on earth to help us learn and live the gospel. We come into our families with a sacred duty to help strengthen each other spiritually.

Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Love is the only duty that we know.

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

I felt like it was a sense of duty for me to give these women a voice.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people.

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

[Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice. That is his duty under the law. I hear no complaints about that.

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.