On Duty Quotes

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Gravity is on duty all of the time.

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

The true source of rights is duty.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their souls.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

Missionary service is a priesthood duty.

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware.