Duty Quotes · Page 26

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

— Brigham Young

It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.

— Chris Bradford

Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

— William Shakespeare

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

— Lord Randolph Churchill

It's the duty of every generation to find music their parents hate.

— Eric Carmen

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

— John Selden

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

— Albert Einstein

What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men… This is what God expects of us

— John Taylor

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good…

— Pat Conroy

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

— Randall Terry

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

— Henry A. Wallace

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their…

— Robert Boyle

As governor, it is my duty to protect the health and welfare of Virginians.

— Glenn Youngkin

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Robert E. Lee

“Leave fears aside, clean tears away! Tell God "here I am, use me!" and he'll give you the assignments that will make…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and…

— Peter Greenaway

O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In…

— Christina Rossetti

He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens…

— Samuel Johnson

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to…

— Glenn Reynolds

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of…

— King Albert II

We are following Allah's word. We believe that humanity's only duty is to honor Allah and his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon…

— Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if…

— Vicki Lawrence

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.…

— Joseph Brodsky

Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference…

— Walter Lippmann

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians,…

— Julia Child

Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

“An author owes a duty to the truth.”

— Walter Moers

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

— Krishnananda Saraswati

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

— Charles Kingsley

It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment,

— John Henry Anderson

In every job that must be done there is an element of fun.

— Mary Poppins

“It is not the world's duty to make your day better.”

— John Cheese

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

— Immanuel Kant

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

— Terence McKenna