Duty Quotes · Page 40

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking…

— Bai Ling

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word…

— Anonymous

“And, alas! how always known no principle to supply as a duty what the heart was deficient in.”

— Jane Austen

“When you have the chance to right a wrong, in whatever small or large way, you have a duty to step up…

— Steven D. Wolf

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

— Philippe Starck

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

— Warren G. Bennis

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

— John D. Rockefeller

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the…

— Paul Bremer

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore…

— Douglas Adams

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are…

— Jeff Miller

Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our…

— Eddie Campbell

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman…

— Lafcadio Hearn

If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group,…

— Maajid Nawaz

[T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They…

— Harry S. Truman

The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by…

— Carlo D'Este

A cap and trade bill will likely increase the costs of electricity. . . . These costs will be passed on to…

— Steven Chu

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.…

— Albert Einstein

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from…

— Douglas William Jerrold

In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can…

— Eric Hoffer

At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude -…

— Ernest Bramah

The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral…

— George Eliot

“Performing the duty prescribed by (one's own) nature, one incurreth no sin.”

— Anonymous

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

— Theodore Parker

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

— Mario Bunge

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be…

— Anonymous

“When a duty is assigned to you, do your best to deliver at the right time and with right results.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The duty of the real beauty in a person is to make him stand true to himself in all odd and even…

— Anonymous

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

— W. H. Auden

Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do…

— Ann Jillian

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

— Anonymous

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.

— John C. Calhoun

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

— Rebecca West

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.

— Knute Nelson

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

— Thomas Jefferson