Duty Quotes · Page 21

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

— Adrian Dunbar

In every job that must be done there is an element of fun.

— Mary Poppins

It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment,

— John Henry Anderson

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

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Krishnananda Saraswati

“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 first duty of love is to listen.

— Paul Tillich

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

— Helen Rowland

“Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.”

— Anthony Liccione

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

— George Peele

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we…

— Oscar Wilde

The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation…

— Marion G. Romney

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

— Miep Gies

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

— Otto Weininger

I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the…

— Heinz Fischer

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find,…

— John Sherman Cooper

The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and…

— John Rawls

The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I use the phrase "fellow citizen" all the time when referring to the - people always say, "The American people, the American…

— Tavis Smiley

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the…

— Larry David

I can't take UKIP seriously. I should, I must, it's our duty to take them seriously, because they're coming out with some…

— Mel Giedroyc

I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of…

— Craig Fairbrass

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars…

— Margaret Fuller

It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.…

— Charlie Munger

I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent,…

— Ray McGovern

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Galileo Galilei

The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to…

— Clara Zetkin

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

— James Madison

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

— Immanuel Kant

“It is not the world's duty to make your day better.”

— John Cheese

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

— Terence McKenna

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

— Lord Randolph Churchill

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

— Albert Einstein

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

— John Selden

It's the duty of every generation to find music their parents hate.

— Eric Carmen