Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

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 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.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

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

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone." She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you." "I am quite certain it is my gentlemanly duty." "To eat cake?" "It is one of the more appealing of my gentlemanly duties," he allowed.

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

I take advantage of the ability to fly with helicopters belonging to the federal police force, and this privilege is consistent with rules that have been in place for decades. A chancellor must be accessible at all times and be in a position to execute their duties as best they can. I must have the ability to immediately return to Berlin if necessary. There are also security considerations.

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.