Duty Quotes · Page 190

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to…

— Washington Irving

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

— Susan Howatch

New occasions teach new duties.

— James Russell Lowell

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

— Confucius

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity…

— Margaret Cavendish

What you need to do is to perform well, do your duties but never ever expect anything in return nothing more nothing…

— Anonymous

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so…

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

— Samantha Morton

I don't think they [Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler] quarreled during the war, he was so completely absorbed in his duties that…

— Gretl Braun

I take my 'advice and consent' duty as a U.S. senator very seriously.

— Bob Casey, Jr

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

— William J. H. Boetcker

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a…

— Harriet Brooks

Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us....…

— Adolf Hitler

It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure…

— William Kittredge

Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done…

— Phillips Brooks

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

— Thomas Carlyle

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.

— Andy Gray

I know what it’s like to be torn between a love so pure it burns you deep down in a place you…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

— George Eliot

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in…

— Anonymous