Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he's nothing but a horseholder. That way, you see, even if he is the last man, he is not just a straggler running and trying to stay alive. He has the command,and duty calls him to do what must be done. If I go to the last embrace of the mother, the duty is yours. You will find the Horn, and you will take it where it belongs. You will.

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

When your eyes beholds mine, I am mesmerized only to be your wife in bad times more than the best ones. Because whatever one say Marriage is all about Compassion

Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being compelled by some more imperative duty, or justified by allowable self-preference, is a subject of moral disapprobation for that failure, but not for the cause of it, nor for the errors, merely personal to himself, which may have remotely led to it. In like manner, when a person disables himself, by conduct purely self-regarding, from the performance of some definite duty incumbent on him to the public, he is guilty of a social offence. No person ought to be punished simply for being drunk; but a soldier or a policeman should be punished for being drunk on duty.

-“Why do men like you do the job you do? It can’t be for the medals. And it’s certainly not the money.” Stone said nothing. -“Why then? God and country?” -“Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President.” -“What then?” -“So I can look at myself in the mirror.

Wisdom defines the limits of one's knowledge and responsibility pushes one beyond those limits

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

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

Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties.

You’re making assumptions.” “Deductions; and of course I am. It’s my duty, as your friend.

Your fear is, that if you marry Adèle, you will love her. If you have children, you will love them more than anything else in the world, more than patriotism, more than democracy. If your children grow up, and prove traitors to the people, will you be able to demand their deaths, as the Romans did? Perhaps you will, but perhaps you will not be able to do it. You’re afraid that if you love people you may be deflected from your duty, but it’s because of another kind of love, isn’t it, that the duty is laid upon you?

Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment. “I’ll sleep long and hard when I’m dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

You have your duty and your heart. To chose one means the other must suffer.

Your Majesty, I am a soldier, not a statesman; and I have no great philosophy but that I love my country. I came because it was my duty as a Christian and a man; now it is my duty to return.

Your only duty is to your heart.

A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

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

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 sense of duty imprisons you.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.