Best 786 quotes in «duty quotes» category

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam.

I was put in this world to change it.

I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Let every lion do his duty.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Love is the outlaw's duty.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind.

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn