Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have. — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The reason I vouched for reopening liquor vends despite the pandemic was that there was no other source of revenue than excise… — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible. — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country.… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be… — William Ames Copy Share Image
For Ishar Singh, the only thing that mattered was his duty, service. The utmost priority was to serve the nation at any… — Mohit Raina Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to… — John Owen Copy Share Image
You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue—indeed… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Duty isn’t a buffet where you pick what you want and ignore the rest.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
