Duty Quotes · Page 12

It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.

— Chris Bradford

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

— Immanuel Kant

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

— Brigham Young

Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

— William Shakespeare

The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

— John Jortin

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

— John Ruskin

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

— Henry Miller

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

— Kathleen Parker

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all.…

— Abraham Lincoln

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

— Noah Webster

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the…

— William Ellery Channing

“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

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong…

— Robert Palmer

There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.

— John Tillotson

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery,…

— Ellen Key

We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or…

— Henry B. Eyring

Being true to one's duty is a mark of true disciples of the Lord and the children of God. Be valiant in…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the…

— John Sergeant Wise

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the…

— John Acton

My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood…

— William C. Oates

If you claim to represent and speak for the people, and they are forced to pay your salary, you have a duty…

— Peter Hitchens

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the…

— Pope John Paul II

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as…

— Daniel Webster

This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest…

— Alexander Hamilton

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over…

— Paul Di Filippo

I can't possibly put myself in his [Tony Blair's] shoes and be inside his head but what I can say is that…

— Andrea Leadsom

“There is but one path of safety to the Latter-day Saints, and that is the path of duty. It is not testimony,…

— Heber J. Grant

If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then…

— Adolf Hitler

Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument;…

— Wolfgang Thierse

It's 'Line of Duty' - you can't second-guess anything!

— Adrian Dunbar

We had a duty to be entertained, whether we wanted to be or not.

— Kumar Anupam

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

— Marcel Proust

“An author owes a duty to the truth.”

— Walter Moers

What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

— Krishnananda Saraswati

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

— Charles Kingsley

It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment,

— John Henry Anderson