On Duty Quotes

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that they don't die with a corrupt heart, because otherwise the dogs of hell will take their blood.

It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.

The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.

I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way. ... "What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.

The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

I think most people didn't want to do court duty.

Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.

Duty is God;Work is worship.

Prema (love): practise that; develop that; spread that; and all the hatreds and jealousies of today will disappear. That is the duty of the Divine Life Society, here as well as elsewhere.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.