Duty Quotes · Page 64

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

— Ugo Betti

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

— Albert Camus

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to…

— Samuel Butler

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

— Iris Chang

The honour of carrying the Canadian flag... brings with it a sense of duty, privilege, and above all, great pride.

— Tessa Virtue

I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos.

— Al-Saadi Gaddafi

As Christians, it's our duty to stand up for what we believe - that's called testifying.

— Johnny Van Zant

If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not…

— Gianfranco Fini

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose…

— James Madison

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom…

— Gordon Getty

Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going…

— Frank Sinatra, Jr

I don't think they [Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler] quarreled during the war, he was so completely absorbed in his duties that…

— Gretl Braun

I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her…

— John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Middletons and the Windsors might seem at first glance to be worlds apart. Kate certainly shows no sign of adopting the…

— Ingrid Seward

And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a…

— Patrick O'Brian

Muhammad divided the world in two sectors. One he called Dar us Salam (House of Peace) and the other, Dar al Harb…

— Ali Sina

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the…

— Henry David Thoreau

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the…

— Ayn Rand

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange…

— Calvin Coolidge

I strongly believe that nothing is more spiritual than living at our highest potential while serving others. I believe that the more…

— Brian Johnson

Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not…

— Anthony Trollope

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

— Anonymous

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic…

— Jed Mercurio

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

— Simone Weil

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child,…

— Barry Humphries

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

— C. S. Lewis

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do…

— William Carey

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

— Edward Alsworth Ross

“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be…

— Edward Abbey

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

— John Flavel

“A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

— William Cowper

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

— Benjamin Constant

I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.

— Ilhan Omar

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

— Abbie Hoffman