Duty Quotes

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

Duty should be a byproduct.

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

Do not forget duty. But choose love when you can.

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

I did Call of Duty Modern Warfare as Gaz, then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

When someone's running late through an airport, I hope they miss their flight so they can meet the love of their life at the duty free shop.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

I actually don't play any new video games except 'Call of Duty.' I'm addicted to 'Call of Duty.' It's the only game I need.

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

These 13,000 release occurred on Hillary Clinton's watch. She had the power and the duty to stop it cold, and she decided she would not do it.

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.