Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

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

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.

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

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

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.

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.

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Protecting the integrity of every vote cast is among the most important duties I have as governor.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community.

Some really famous people, even when they're off-duty, have this energy that is sort of overpowering.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.

Thank God I have done my duty.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.