Duty Quotes · Page 60

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

— Vernon Howard

“Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.”

— Sherwood Smith

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

— Albert Camus

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's true that the man stealer is always lurking around the corner it's just our job and your duty to make sure…

— Gabrielle Dennis

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young…

— George Eliot

I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.

— Joe Frazier

“Our religion (the Self’s duty) is to ‘know’ the one who carries out the worldly actions. Doing those activities is not in…

— Dada Bhagwan

I went through kindergarten through 12th grade, college, law school and four years of active duty in the U.S. Army and I…

— Lee Zeldin

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all…

— Karl Popper

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may…

— David James Duncan

I don't want to be considered a hero… Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to…

— Miep Gies

At the end of the day, men like Donald Trump need to be given that which they themselves dispense: clear messages. I…

— Martin Schulz

Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it…

— Bertrand Russell

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the…

— Robert Boswell

While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the…

— Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt…

— Anonymous

Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in…

— Terry Pratchett

Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides.…

— Serzh Sargsyan

I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!…

— Anonymous

Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors…

— Donald Rumsfeld

That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a…

— Samuel Johnson

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.

— W. H. Auden

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

— Kate DiCamillo

Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need…

— Mother Teresa

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

— Bill Shuster

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

— Madame de Stael

One of our primary purposes in this life is to help others. If you are unable to help someone, then please, do…

— David Kreger

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities...

— Paulo Coelho

Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty.

— Ramman Kenoun

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm the best PlayStation player you'll ever see. I'll play anything. 'Call of Duty,' 'NBA2K,' 'Grand Theft Auto.'

— Ben Simmons

But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

— John Henry Newman

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

— George W. Bush

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've always felt like in a democracy - this is how I was raised - that as a citizen, it's your duty…

— Mikie Sherrill