Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

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

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 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.

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.

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 duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

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

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.

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