Duty Quotes

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.

I want to dedicate the rest of my life to spreading the love of Christ. Because God has done so much for me and has given me this platform to speak into millions of lives, I feel it is my duty...

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.

[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.

As a citizen, you have a duty to ask what is true and what is false.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Thou art relieved of thy duties!

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.