Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

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

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.

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

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 a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

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.

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.

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.

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

Beneficence is a duty.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.

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.

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

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

Duty is God;Work is worship.

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.

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 what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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

Duty is ours, results are God's.