Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 think the first duty of society is justice.

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

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

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

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

It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it is the duty as it is the object, of government to protect every man in this enjoyment.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.