Duty Quotes · Page 27

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

— James Madison

The first duty of love is to listen.

— Paul Tillich

There is no duty that we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

— Anonymous

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

— Joseph Joubert

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.

— LL Cool J

Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.

— Reginald Heber

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

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

— Steve Bannon

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

Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.

— Swami Vivekananda

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

— Tim McIlrath

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, its about being willing to experience fear,…

— Vanna Bonta

It can sometimes feel like the commercials for Activision's 'Call of Duty' series are always on. If the publisher has its way,…

— Jason Schreier

Becoming mature is not important for art. Technical perfection is not relevant to art. Precision in art is only achieved by total…

— Jonathan Meese

We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest…

— John Flavel

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak…

— Shakira

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any…

— Ahmad

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent…

— John Ruskin

How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout…

— Thomas Secker

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.…

— Confucius

[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would…

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Robert Jordan

As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally…

— Henry George

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

— Robert Jordan

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“THE FIRST DUTY OF A MILITARY MAN IS TO RESPECT THE CITIZEN”

— J. Tisa

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

— Therese of Lisieux

It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.

— Stuart Duncan

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

— George Takei

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

— Ludwig van Beethoven