Duty Quotes · Page 181

As for me, tough duty though it may be, I continue to do my part for the commercial recreation industry. Fishing, boating,…

— George H. W. Bush

“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

After two good and interesting years I decided to put an end to my duty at FIFA, mainly to be able to…

— Marco van Basten

The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice,…

— Roger Tory Peterson

The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself…

— Galileo Galilei

And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty…

— Christopher Gadsden

Violence is sometimes a duty.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

— James Q. Wilson

Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV…

— Margaret Thatcher

I saw the discrimination that was happening towards Middle Easterners, Muslims and other brown people who had nothing to do with 9/11.…

— Maz Jobrani

Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness…

— James Vila Blake

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer…

— Jeremy Taylor

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

— James Thurber

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

— George Eliot

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

— Gordon Gee

I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold…

— Poul Anderson

I am saying that out of a spirit of appreciation and gratitude, and a sense of duty, you ought to make whatever…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

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

— Chris Bradford

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

— Alexandre Vinet

You are neither answerable for others nor will you be asked about what doesn't concern you so stick to your own responsibilities.

— Anonymous

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like…

— Douglas William Jerrold