Duty Quotes · Page 55

It is our duty to ensure a good, secure, and stable life for our people, in our small country, surrounded by enemies.

— Yoav Gallant

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

— Anonymous

“No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.”

— Idries Shah

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

— George Washington

Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Every actor has his or her own style, so it is the duty of the director to mould it the way they…

— Priyadarshan

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

— H. G. Wells

Real men cook, clean, wash dishes, do the laundry, fold the laundry, bathe the kids, & take out the trash.

— Surgeo Bell

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are…

— Justin Welby

No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man…

— William Booth

I have the duty to protect my people, hurt my enemy, do the best I can with as few uninvolved casualties as…

— Benny Gantz

...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of…

— Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon…

— Simon Mainwaring

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts…

— George Eliot

“It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have…

— Zadie Smith

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject…

— William Graham Sumner

The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve…

— Barack Obama

Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your…

— Ryan Zinke

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey,…

— Rick Riordan

I think the play offers (white Americans) a different way to look at black Americans For instance, in 'Fences' they see a…

— August Wilson

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings…

— E. Stanley Jones

This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Jeremy Taylor

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as…

— Daniel Webster

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

— George Whitefield

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

— John James Audubon

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

— Alex Trebek

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.

— Don Kates

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small…

— Charles Mackay

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Mankind has a divine duty, to be stewardship of the natural resources.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Tonight he would do anything in the world for her. Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.”

— Mary Balogh

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

— Ron Kovic

To be captain is an extended duty that you have to be ready to do properly.

— Leah Williamson

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

— M. Russell Ballard

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

— Horace Bushnell

“It seemed she would not be able to ignore her duty; it had just arrived.”

— Monica McCarty

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and…

— Joseph Wood Krutch