Duty Quotes · Page 78

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

With every great relationship comes a great burden and the strength to carry it.

— Anonymous

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

— Anonymous

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's…

— Phillips Brooks

I have done my duty and lived up to my promise of having exposed Jayalalitha.

— Subramanian Swamy

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is…

— Haile Gebrselassie

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

— Leon Bourgeois

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have engaged in gross dereliction of duty by surrendering the safety of the American people to…

— Donald Trump

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“One's own duty, though devoid of merit, is preferable to the duty of another well performed. Even death in the performance of…

— Gita Press

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and…

— William Winwood Reade

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and…

— Bryant H. McGill

“Maybe in death you’ll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against…

— Charles Lee

I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal,…

— Thomas S. Monson

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'…

— Alice Miller

You can’t miss your schedule. Every morning, you’re supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos…

— Suzanne Collins

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's…

— Allen W. Wood

The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of…

— Pope John Paul II

Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us,…

— Phillips Brooks

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself…

— Kofi Annan

The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who…

— Melvin J. Ballard

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking…

— Bai Ling

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word…

— Anonymous

“And, alas! how always known no principle to supply as a duty what the heart was deficient in.”

— Jane Austen

“When you have the chance to right a wrong, in whatever small or large way, you have a duty to step up…

— Steven D. Wolf

I am available to play in foreign leagues only when not required on national duty.

— Shahid Afridi

I would have 'Call of Duty' be an online subscription service tomorrow. I think our audiences are clamouring for it.

— Bobby Kotick

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

— Anonymous

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

— Ernest Renan

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty,…

— John Tillotson

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.

— Joanna Krupa

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they…

— Helen Keller

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

— William Faulkner

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown