Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

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 free and independent; I am a traveler with 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 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 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 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'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

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!

I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.

I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.