Duty Quotes · Page 22

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The sole sacred duty is to fear God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

— Phillip Brook

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

— Stonewall Jackson

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

— Mark Batterson

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

— Albert Einstein

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I want to be the best, that's my duty every day.

— Rodri

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most…

— Harold Brodkey

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

— Elizabeth I

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

— Steve Bannon

There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's…

— Anonymous

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret if for the friends I leave behind

— Zachary Taylor

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

— Robert E. Lee

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in…

— Patti Smith

The overhead bins - this is not a real passenger plane. We wanted it to look like a real passenger plane. But…

— Trish Sie

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized…

— Ludwig von Mises

Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and…

— Linda Cardellini

Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for…

— Lynn Montross

In life, we have two segments: arts and science. We need science to make our lives easier. But what do we live…

— Pankaj Tripathi

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality…

— Charles Kingsley

I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice…

— Jose Rizal

I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love,…

— Sarah Kay

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as…

— Tadeusz Borowski

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face…

— Roger Penrose

Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have…

— Bertrand Russell

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and…

— Edmund Burke

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about…

— Mother Teresa

Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can…

— Thomas Paine

I feel like we have a duty as fighters to try and be a better example.

— Rose Namajunas

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

— Mathilde Blind

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

— Kim Jong Il

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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

— Oscar Wilde

Doing good is our duty as children of God.

— Innah Delos Angeles

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

— Shari Arison

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

— Alfred Adler