Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

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

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

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 man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

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

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

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

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Thou art relieved of thy duties!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 an intuitive sense of our duty.

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

We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality.

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.