Duty Quotes

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

I felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there and everywhere, I never shirked a duty to baseball.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then calls it back. It is a simple one, but it gives me goosebumps every time.

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.