Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God’s protection.

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

We were on duty. We had jobs to do. When all hell breaks loose, we are the ones who run into the fires of hell, not away from it.

What am I going to say if I end up standing in front of God the Father Almighty and He asks me to explain why I did it? That it was my job? My job?

What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying the end of their labours and sufferings, what a life would you lead after such a sight as this! Why, you will see this with your eyes before it be long. Thou hast the more cause to doubt a great deal, because thou never didst doubtl and yet more because thou hast been so careless in thy confidence. What do these expressions discover, but a wilful neglect of thy own salvation? As a shipmaster that should let his vessel alone, and mind other matters, and say, I will venture it among the rocks, and sands, and gulfs, and waves, and winds; I will never touble myself to know wheter it shall come safe to the harbour; I will trust God with it; it will speed as well as other men's vessels do. Indeed, as well as other men's that are as careless and idle, but not so well as other mens's that are diligent and watchful. What horrible abuse of God is this, for men to pretend that they trust God with their souls only to cloak their own wilful negligence! (290-291)

When a ship without a functioning rudder and compass miraculously sails safely to the shore, let not the Captain take praise for such success. It is not his place to claim merit. He should nevertheless, be prosecuted for failing as a Captain.

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being compelled by some more imperative duty, or justified by allowable self-preference, is a subject of moral disapprobation for that failure, but not for the cause of it, nor for the errors, merely personal to himself, which may have remotely led to it. In like manner, when a person disables himself, by conduct purely self-regarding, from the performance of some definite duty incumbent on him to the public, he is guilty of a social offence. No person ought to be punished simply for being drunk; but a soldier or a policeman should be punished for being drunk on duty.

When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he's nothing but a horseholder. That way, you see, even if he is the last man, he is not just a straggler running and trying to stay alive. He has the command,and duty calls him to do what must be done. If I go to the last embrace of the mother, the duty is yours. You will find the Horn, and you will take it where it belongs. You will.

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

When your eyes beholds mine, I am mesmerized only to be your wife in bad times more than the best ones. Because whatever one say Marriage is all about Compassion

-“Why do men like you do the job you do? It can’t be for the medals. And it’s certainly not the money.” Stone said nothing. -“Why then? God and country?” -“Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President.” -“What then?” -“So I can look at myself in the mirror.

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

Wisdom defines the limits of one's knowledge and responsibility pushes one beyond those limits

You have your duty and your heart. To chose one means the other must suffer.

Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment. “I’ll sleep long and hard when I’m dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

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

Your fear is, that if you marry Adèle, you will love her. If you have children, you will love them more than anything else in the world, more than patriotism, more than democracy. If your children grow up, and prove traitors to the people, will you be able to demand their deaths, as the Romans did? Perhaps you will, but perhaps you will not be able to do it. You’re afraid that if you love people you may be deflected from your duty, but it’s because of another kind of love, isn’t it, that the duty is laid upon you?

Your Majesty, I am a soldier, not a statesman; and I have no great philosophy but that I love my country. I came because it was my duty as a Christian and a man; now it is my duty to return.

Your only duty is to your heart.

Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.

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.

You’re making assumptions.” “Deductions; and of course I am. It’s my duty, as your friend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

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 sense of duty imprisons you.

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

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

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

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.