Duty Quotes · Page 44

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

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

— Walter Bagehot

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of…

— Gerald Massey

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely…

— Samuel Butler

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege…

— Ambrose Bierce

The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the…

— Kid Nichols

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and…

— Charles Inglis

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member…

— James Madison

The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body.…

— Ludwig von Mises

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which…

— Felix Frankfurter

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for…

— Carl Jung

I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

“Sacrebleu, Clara, what are you doing to me?” he whispered. Why did she have to see so damned much? Why did she…

— Sabrina Jeffries

Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship…

— M. Scott Peck

If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings…

— Jon Stewart

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption…

— Thomas Jefferson

To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each…

— William Ellery Channing

We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be…

— Pope Leo X

To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which…

— Thomas Jefferson

I like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in…

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

— Philippe Starck

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

— John D. Rockefeller

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

— Warren G. Bennis

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mario Bunge

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

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

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

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

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Andy Gray

“My duty is to serve and protect the twelfth prince of Xing.-Lan Fan to Ling”

— Hiromu Arakawa