Duty Quotes · Page 14

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

— Vince Lombardi

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

— Stonewall Jackson

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

— Edmund Burke

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

— Paul Schrader

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The sole sacred duty is to fear God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

— Stonewall Jackson

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

— Randall Terry

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

— Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

— C. S. Lewis

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do…

— William Carey

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

— Edward Alsworth Ross

“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be…

— Edward Abbey

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child,…

— Barry Humphries

I like to game. I started gaming as a kid and then got into 'Call Of Duty,' I love shooting games. Growing…

— Dylan Llewellyn

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference…

— John Milton

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table,…

— Ellen G. White

There have been women who have pioneered and paved the way for me to be able to sit here and to have…

— Ashlyn Harris

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty.…

— Anonymous

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still…

— Bernie Sanders

I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer…

— Rob Nixon

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in…

— Hojo Soun

There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit…

— George H Morrison

His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper…

— Terry Goodkind

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to…

— Derek R. Audette

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more…

— Anonymous

If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon…

— William Wilberforce

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

— Phillip Brook

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

— Mark Batterson

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

— Albert Einstein

I want to be the best, that's my duty every day.

— Rodri

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

— Kim Jong Il

I feel like we have a duty as fighters to try and be a better example.

— Rose Namajunas

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

— Mathilde Blind