Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

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

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

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.

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone." She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you." "I am quite certain it is my gentlemanly duty." "To eat cake?" "It is one of the more appealing of my gentlemanly duties," he allowed.

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

I take advantage of the ability to fly with helicopters belonging to the federal police force, and this privilege is consistent with rules that have been in place for decades. A chancellor must be accessible at all times and be in a position to execute their duties as best they can. I must have the ability to immediately return to Berlin if necessary. There are also security considerations.