On Duty Quotes

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.

You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

There is not a moment without some duty.

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

I will leave the U.S Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.