Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press.

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

Beneficence is a duty.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties?

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.

Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.

Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.