Duty Quotes

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.

a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative

The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.

When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.

It is my duty to be a father to my kids.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock