Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.

The right to die can so easily become the duty to die.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

The true source of rights is duty.

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

Thou art relieved of thy duties!

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.

To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

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

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

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.