Duty Quotes · Page 61

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

— Wasif Ali Wasif

As an MP, my first duty is to act in the national interest, regardless of party affiliation.

— Dominic Grieve

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward…

— Gouverneur Morris

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.”

— Jane Austen

It is our duty as fighters to evolve and get better and show a better performance for the fans.

— Mauricio Rua

Tribes don't need Congressmembers' sympathy. What tribes need is for us to properly exercise our duty.

— Sharice Davids

The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

— James Patterson

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid…

— Robert Peel

I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would…

— Madeleine Albright

I didn't want to do two years in the regular army, my music career was just getting started. So, I joined the…

— Eddie Rabbitt

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

— Bertrand Russell

I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never…

— Ann Rinaldi

I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of…

— Malcolm Turnbull

The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call…

— Mark Felt

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

The immigration system in America today has been misrepresented, misunderstood to mean: "Anybody who wants to come can come. The world is…

— Rush Limbaugh

Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God,…

— Harry S. Truman

The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her…

— Thomas S. Monson

Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand…

— Ellen G. White

Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted…

— Allen W. Wood

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one…

— Simone Weil

This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.

— Vyasa

“Now we go in and take over," answered A. "It's our duty to help these people.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work…

— Martin Luther

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to…

— John Calvin

“Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” he concluded.”

— Leo Tolstoy

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

— Gustav Krupp

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

— Sydney Thompson Dobell

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

— Richardson Wright

“It is my duty as a free man to read so I'm not blind being lead around by my nose”

— Pierce Brown

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

— Edmund Burke

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

— Anonymous

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

— J. Frank Dobie

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

— Henry Edward Manning

I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

— Tammy Duckworth