Duty Quotes · Page 61

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

— John R. Erickson

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

— Kathe Kollwitz

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

— Jeremiah Burroughs

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

— John Nelson Darby

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

— Anonymous

Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

— Swami Vivekananda

It's not my duty to respond to what Mourinho says. I don't know the way he thinks.

— Manuel Pellegrini

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have people that live in rural remote communities. They live in Indigenous communities in Queensland up to the Torres Strait and…

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

The prosecution has an ethical duty to ensure not just that they get a conviction when the defendant is guilty, but also…

— Marcia Clark

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him…

— William Godwin

It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and…

— Michael Jordan

Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of…

— David O. McKay

I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the…

— Guru Gobind Singh

I could have easily carved out a niche, but I realised that Saira Banu the actress can be replaced, but nobody can…

— Saira Banu

Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that…

— George W. Bush

All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a…

— Eric Hoffer

I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their…

— Trent Reznor

We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get…

— Jeff Merkley

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent…

— Frederick Douglass

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy…

— Albert Einstein

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility,…

— Charles Horton Cooley

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

— Jean Giraudoux

Law enforcement officers must carry out their sacred duty to protect and serve in a way that earns the trust of our…

— John Bel Edwards

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

— Plutarch

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

— James Anthony Froude

Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty... If I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out…

— Osama bin Laden

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

— Mencius

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear…

— George Washington

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

— George Mason

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow…

— Tryon Edwards

“There is nothing about our duties that necessitates like or dislike. You have your purpose and I have mine. That’s the end…

— Dawn Jayne

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

— Henry David Thoreau

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

— Phyllis Schlafly

“Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.”

— Amit Kalantri