On Duty Quotes
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
It is every Muslim's duty to fight those of a different belief until only Allah is worshipped around the world. Everybody has the opportunity to accept Allah and to change to the right path.
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.
Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters
To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.
happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.
Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.
Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.
One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.
It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.
I feel like God gave me an amazing ability, and it's my duty to show people what I'm made of.
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .
