Duty Quotes

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things tha...

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my dut...

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of ...

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lea...

That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everyt...

The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is t...

When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in...

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, t...

[Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, witho...

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true s...

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the out...

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight a...

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and sufferin...

Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand...

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fa...

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above...

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom ...

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but ...

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it some...

From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.

Mary was proud of her husband, not merely because he was a musician, but because he was a blacksmith...

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men...

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that ...

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not t...

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of so...

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us...

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the...

And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man ...

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical mora...

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope...

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

To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admi...

The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conceptio...

if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, str...

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still tryi...

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by mano...

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her u...

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. I...

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other th...

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being ...

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and...

Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose...

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, ...

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, an...

Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have tak...

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or ...

Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, g...

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

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon ...

And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those thing...

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful ...

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w...

I tried to establish order over the chaos of my imagination, but this essence, the same that present...

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life...

She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any ...

In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet ...

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

We all have the duty to do good.

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. Al...

So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth...

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The yout...

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring th...

As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further ...

The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand ...

What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and en...

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematic...

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a p...

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all...

In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outsid...

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pl...

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.