On Duty Quotes

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community.

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

I just had a really good time when I did my voice work for Call of Duty. Ive had nothing but great interaction with Activision.

I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.

A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.

Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

It's my duty to enlighten people.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

Duty never stopped anyone from following their dreams.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.