Duty Quotes · Page 170

The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but…

— Jimmy Carter

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

— Tryon Edwards

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas…

— Richard Courant

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are…

— Justin Welby

I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that…

— Bill Shorten

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements,…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it,…

— Walter Rauschenbusch

The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose…

— George Washington

Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we…

— Priscilla Shirer

The most important obligation our government has is to protect American citizens, and for decades career politicians like Joe Donnelly in Washington…

— Mike Braun

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

— Kelsey Grammer

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

— Terence McKenna

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

— Henrik Ibsen

Protecting the integrity of every vote cast is among the most important duties I have as governor.

— Pat McCrory

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

— Khalil Gibran

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases…

— Agnes Repplier

Consult duty not events.

— Walter Savage Landor

[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it…

— Peter van Agtmael

When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We…

— Samuel Johnson

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the…

— Caleb Cushing

In our decrees, it is definitely proclaimed that religion is a question for the private individual; but whilst opportunists tended to see…

— Leon V. DePoncins

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

— David O. McKay

“Justice Denied Thousands of women, probably more I cannot reach them behind justice doors Many stay silent, barred just like me. Haunted…

— Diane Chamberlain