Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

I believe Washington should be a more active participant focusing on the issue of why corporate shareholders and mutual fund shareholders are not given fair treatment by corporate management and mutual fund management. We need to develop a national standard of fiduciary duty to ensure that these agents, if you will, are adequately representing the principles - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund shareholders - whom they are duty bound to serve.

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.