Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

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

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

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 duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it is the duty as it is the object, of government to protect every man in this enjoyment.

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 that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

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.

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.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.