Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

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.

Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

Duty without love is deplorable.

Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.

England expects every man to do his duty

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on.

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Gravity is on duty all of the time.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.