To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny — George Washington Copy Share Image
There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. — John Swartzwelder Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty… — Hugo Pratt Copy Share Image
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty… — Samuel de Champlain Copy Share Image
Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make… — Isabella Macdonald Alden Copy Share Image
If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I would reject wholeheartedly any notion of a Labour Party that is not committed to returning to power at the first opportunity.… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I will leave the U.S Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the… — Mario Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,. to obey his will, to be grateful for… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is… — Sidney Greenberg Copy Share Image
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image