Duty Quotes · Page 16

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

— Jorge Luis Borges

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

— Anonymous

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

— Zig Ziglar

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

— John Wilkins

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

— Gore Vidal

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“It seemed she would not be able to ignore her duty; it had just arrived.”

— Monica McCarty

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

— Horace Bushnell

happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

— Alice Hegan Rice

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably…

— Anonymous

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It is the BJP's duty to criticise and oppose me. I have no problem with that.

— H. D. Kumaraswamy

sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.

— Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag…

— George Porter

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that…

— Ernest Hemingway

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men…

— Julie Burchill

Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people…

— Natasha Leggero

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so…

— Robyn Carr

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose…

— George Bernard Shaw

'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then…

— Jorge Hernandez

Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if…

— Walter Smith

When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use…

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight'…

— Ze'ev Jabotinsky

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely,…

— Elie Wiesel

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it.…

— Florence Nightingale

Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war…

— John Adams

Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and…

— Karen Armstrong

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been…

— Robert Jordan

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties

— Alexander MacLaren

“Now if we only knew what it means to know, we would be conscious.”

— Atom Tate

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware.

— Zig Ziglar

I don't really put on makeup when I'm on mom duty at home.

— Lily Aldridge

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

— Alan Blinder

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.

— Christopher Abbott

“We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.”

— Selma Dabbagh

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

— John Ruskin