Duty Quotes · Page 58

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret if for the friends I leave behind

— Zachary Taylor

There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's…

— Anonymous

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

— Steve Bannon

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most…

— Harold Brodkey

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

— Elizabeth I

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in…

— Patti Smith

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed,…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort…

— Bernhard von Bulow

[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in…

— Albert Einstein

I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even…

— Nas

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his…

— Margaret Atwood

There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to…

— George Whitefield

When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Raise your hand if you had no idea you’d see so much nudity in one week of jury duty.” Twelve hands flew…

— Julie James

It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit…

— George H Morrison

Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in…

— Hojo Soun

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more…

— Anonymous

If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon…

— William Wilberforce

IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR…

— Daniel Webster

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to…

— Derek R. Audette

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of…

— Samuel Johnson

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in…

— Seneca the Younger

As a young player, national duty always felt kind of like... a duty. It was always there, it was normal, it was…

— Mario Gomez

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

— Immanuel Kant

Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.

— Ted Lieu

I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.

— Michael Hersch

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

— Narendra Modi

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

— William Rounseville Alger

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

— Charlie Sheen

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The reason I vouched for reopening liquor vends despite the pandemic was that there was no other source of revenue than excise…

— Amarinder Singh

The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.

— Chelsea Manning

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his…

— Marlon Brando

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton