Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties.

A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities.

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

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

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.

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

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.

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

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.

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

Beneficence is a duty.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a 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 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 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.

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

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.

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation.

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.

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

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

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.

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.

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.