On Duty Quotes

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

Love is the outlaw's duty.

The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Of my death, tell them i have done my duty

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

I feel it my bounden duty to not only replace displaced bones, but also teach others, so that the physical and spiritual may enjoy health, happiness and the full fruition of our earthly lives.

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Beneficence is a duty.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.