On Duty Quotes

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

Some really famous people, even when they're off-duty, have this energy that is sort of overpowering.

I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it