Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

New occasions teach new duties.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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

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

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Of my death, tell them i have done my duty

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.