Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

New occasions teach new duties.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Of my death, tell them i have done my duty

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.