Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless

It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony.

It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

It is our duty to do all we can to introduce every generation to Christ.

It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.

It is our first duty to serve society.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.

It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

It's my duty to enlighten people.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

I was put in this world to change it.