Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Of my death, tell them i have done my duty

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Protecting the integrity of every vote cast is among the most important duties I have as governor.

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.