Duty Quotes · Page 68

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother…

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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

— Abbie Hoffman

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

— Doug Larson

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

— Pearl S. Buck

Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character.

— Claire Foy

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

— Adolf Hitler

If you claim to represent and speak for the people, and they are forced to pay your salary, you have a duty…

— Peter Hitchens

My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood…

— William C. Oates

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the…

— John Acton

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the…

— Pope John Paul II

It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it…

— Noah Webster

I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ…

— Heber J. Grant

We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core…

— Ronald Reagan

When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis…

— Francis James Grimke

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the…

— Jacques Barzun

Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their…

— Kenny Smith

Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that…

— Mark Satin

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill…

— Anne Bronte

I do a program called Fast Twitch twice a week, basically my lifting and strength training, I'm working with a spine specialist,…

— Kerri Walsh

Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is…

— John Piper

I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life — that you cannot look…

— Walter Scott

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of…

— Gautama Buddha

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

— Samuel Smiles

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

— William Blake

Every good government's duty is to do more for the regions that are underdeveloped.

— Amit Shah

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

— Henry Fielding

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel

— Joseph Smith, Jr

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

— Aaron Sorkin

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:FEAR GOD,and keep his commandments:for this is the whole duty of man

— God

I love watching 'Orange Is the New Black,' and I play video games, like 'Call of Duty.'

— Stipe Miocic

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

— Ellen Key

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

— Fernand Point

“Yeah,” Robertson nodded grimly. “It’s the whole problem, isn’t it? People just doing their jobs.”

— Krzysztof Pacyński

“If you try to do that which is not ‘our’ duty [the Self’s duty], it will create interference.”

— Dada Bhagwan