Duty Quotes

Gravity is on duty all of the time.

— Laurence Gonzales

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

— Joseph Cook

Love is a better teacher than duty.

— Albert Einstein

Simple duty hath no place for fear.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Duty is ours and events are God's.

— Angelina Grimke

“Duty is sinless.”

— Amit Kalantri

Our duty is to be patient.

— Hamza Yusuf

I believe military duty is a duty.

— Jin

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

— Leonard Cohen

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

— Ellen Glasgow

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

— Ann Oakley

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do things beautifully.

— Anonymous

The right to die can easily become the duty to die.

— Peter Saunders

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

— Pat Barker

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

“Each position has its corresponding duties.”

— George Eliot

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do…

— William Carey

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

— C. S. Lewis

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

— Edward Alsworth Ross

“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be…

— Edward Abbey

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child,…

— Barry Humphries

I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.

— Ilhan Omar

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

— Benjamin Constant

It is one planet and we all have a duty to protect it. We have to work together. We have to use…

— Julie Payette

This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark…

— Winston Churchill

European exporters will be paying twice as much duty on stuff they sell to the U.K. because they sell twice as much…

— Crispin Blunt

The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the…

— Andrew Carnegie

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival…

— Leilani Munter

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's…

— Ayn Rand

...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and…

— Angelina Grimke

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to…

— Derek R. Audette

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more…

— Anonymous

If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon…

— William Wilberforce

IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR…

— Daniel Webster

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in…

— Hojo Soun

There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner