Duties Quotes · Page 2

Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.

— George W. Bush

“The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.”

— Tom Clancy

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

— E. M. Forster

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

— Benjamin Disraeli

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

— Margaret Deland

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

— Thomas Drummond

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

— Henrik Ibsen

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

— George Eliot

My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

— Aga Khan IV

“The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Leon Bourgeois

I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

“His manly duties covered the gardening, the bulb-changing and general maintenance, the woman did the washing, ironing, cleaning.”

— Milly Johnson

“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ On Water ]”

— Guy de Maupassant

“If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties…

— Eric Holder

Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average.…

— Charles Dance

I am always on duty, even when I am at party events or on vacation. I don't complain about it, on the…

— Angela Merkel

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping…

— Arthur Capper

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved…

— John Cameron

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those…

— Sherwood Smith

As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to…

— Doug Harvey

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary…

— Mariella Frostrup

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to…

— John McCain

“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties…

— Mildred Armstrong Kalish

“Do not focus your thoughts among the confused wheels of secondary causes, as -'O if this had been, this had not followed!'…

— Samuel Rutherford

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it…

— John Marshall

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our…

— Saint Ambrose

“The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual…

— Simone Weil

You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of…

— William Samuel Johnson

“good people bring the good out of people”

— Turcois Ominek

'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

— Ian Mckellen

I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos.

— Al-Saadi Gaddafi

“Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones.”

— C.S. Lewis

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the…

— Thomas Merton

“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.”

— Bhagavad Gita

“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been.”

— George Eliot Daniel Deronda 1876

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

— Zachary Taylor