Duty Quotes · Page 28

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

— Mahatma Gandhi

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

— Jay Griffiths

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

England expects every man to do his duty

— Horatio Nelson

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

— Andrew Johnson

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

— Jeremiah Burroughs

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

— Jean Toomer

It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night.

— Yuki

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

— Woodrow Wilson

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.

— John Shimkus

Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

— Liam Neeson

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

— C. S. Lewis

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the…

— Benjamin Carson

Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's…

— Jay Leno

There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I…

— Gary Kraftsow

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was…

— Indira Gandhi

“They are all good lads, said Carrot softly. I'm sure if the two of you call on each and every one of…

— Terry Pratchett

I've talked to several who have been approached for short- or long-term duty in the Trump administration. The evidence of the work…

— John Dickerson

“There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb…

— Auberon Waugh

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is,…

— Alanis Morissette

Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war…

— John Adams

Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and…

— Karen Armstrong

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely,…

— Elie Wiesel

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it.…

— Florence Nightingale

When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use…

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight'…

— Ze'ev Jabotinsky

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken…

— Nikola Tesla

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

— Miep Gies

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

— George Eliot

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

— Fernando Pessoa

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

— Friedrich Schiller

“I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

— Jose Marti

We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity.

— John O'Donohue

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

— Said Nursi