Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on.

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Gravity is on duty all of the time.

happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

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

Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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 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 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!