On Duty Quotes

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

Duty cannot exist without faith

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us

Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.

I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light.

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them.

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.