Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

The right to die can so easily become the duty to die.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

The true source of rights is duty.

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Thou art relieved of thy duties!

To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.