Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

Your ability to let go is part of the duty that you have.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self. Every attempt to live as if he were alone is a denial of the fact that he is actually responsible. He cannot escape the responsibility, which is his because he is a father. This reality refutes the fictitious notion that the isolated individual is the agent of all ethical behavior. It is not the isolated individual but the responsible person who is the proper agent to be considered in ethical reflection.

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

Agnosticism, Atheism, secularism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam or any other counter belief to Christianity is not the greatest threat facing Christianity in the west. The biggest threat facing Christianity in the west is Scripture illiterate believers. People who are asleep, all while the world waits to here the Gospel...”

A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty.

A kunoichi is married to her duty, and to death.

A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.

[A]ll the...people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

A mother is an irreplaceable gift that God has given every mankind. Your (a child's) duty is to honour, adore, respect and serve her. Your blessings are tied in how honour she felt.

And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like those dramas so beloved by the people—in which every villain is punished, and every act of virtue meets with its reward; we learn anew every day that the wisdom of the serpent fares better here than the gentleness of the dove, and that any thief can triumph if he steals enough. If mere worldly utility and expediency were the justification of virtue, it would not be wise to be too good. And yet, knowing all this, having it flung into our faces with brutal repetition, we still feel the command to righteousness, we know that we ought to do the inexpedient good.

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.

And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion. “ The Prince, XVIII, 5

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man I was listening had been in it and that despite his bravery the war had made him a coward and that if he did any more killing it would be wide-awake and in cold blood, and nobody would have the guts to send him to the electric chair because he had performed his duty toward his fellow men, which was to deny his own sacred instincts and so everything was just and fair because one crime washes away the other in the name of God, country and humanity, peace be with you all.

Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and inward disease under which he had a great while languished, and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: “Yourself, sir,” replied the other, “by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my life.

As a gentleman- assuming you still have some pretensions in that direction- of honor- again, perhaps presumptuous, but still supposing your passing acquaintance with the concept- it is your duty- I won't even trouble to speculate here, but remain naively hopeful- to protect those under your care.

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

Attend to your duties and be inwardly detached, knowing that nothing, no one belongs to you.