Duty Quotes · Page 12

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

— Frederick Greenwood

The government's duty is to support basic sciences.

— Tasuku Honjo

We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.

— Bruce Rauner

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

— Thomas Jefferson

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

— William Hazlitt

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

— Salva Kiir Mayardit

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

— Mason Cooley

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

— David Ogilvy

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.

— Knute Nelson

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist…

— May Sarton

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out.

— Keir Starmer

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a…

— Andrew Johnson

I have done my duty and lived up to my promise of having exposed Jayalalitha.

— Subramanian Swamy

Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean,…

— Kenneth Patchen

We have not only the right, but a specific duty, to honestly and unflinchingly look at all aspects of our world, both…

— Michael Light

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties…

— Henry Clay

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable…

— Alexis Carrel

It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and…

— John Adams

There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep…

— Greg James

I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added…

— Sathya Sai Baba

It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which…

— Richard P. Feynman

See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest…

— Richard Baxter

Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old…

— Andrew Linzey

Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a…

— Octave Mirbeau

Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from…

— Julian Barnes

The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now…

— George Will

Do not forget duty. But choose love when you can.

— Cinda Williams Chima

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

— Thomas Huxley

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

— Margaret Thatcher

Protecting children from any sort of abuse is a duty of every citizen.

— Anonymous

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

— Ronald Reagan

“Duty isn’t a buffet where you pick what you want and ignore the rest.”

— James S.A. Corey

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

— Fidel Castro

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

— Margaret Fuller