Duty Quotes · Page 8

Duty should be a byproduct.

— Brenda Ueland

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

— Martin Luther

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

— Theodore Parker

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

— Samuel Smiles

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

— Paulo Coelho

You don't get stressed if you think your job as a hobby, not as a duty.

— Henry Lau

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“it is our duty to protect that which is sacred to us”

— Meilena Hauslendale

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

— John Updike

“I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

— Jose Marti

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our…

— Walter Cronkite

“We passengers through time, thereof, let us live with passion to fulfill the purposeful duty.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continuous friction otherwise.”

— Swami Vivekananda

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

— Eliza Lynn Linton

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it…

— Sigmund Freud

Our duty is to love each other. I have no problem with that, and I've never had a problem to love my…

— Daniel Niazi

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French…

— Hippolyte Taine

Philanthropy is the duty of how we should behave when things go wrong for people, and how we can help to make…

— Robert L. Payton

The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose…

— George Washington

This is our mission at home, to approach these future decisions without hesitation, to do our duty and to remain strong. We…

— Julius Streicher

“If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable.…

— Victor Hugo

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's…

— John Abizaid

We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I'll try to be what Father loves to call me, a 'little woman,' and not be rough and wild but do my…

— Louisa May Alcott

Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is…

— Bill Belichick

Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most…

— Thomas Watson

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . .…

— Noah Webster

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges,…

— A. Philip Randolph

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties…

— Dallin H. Oaks

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to…

— James K. Polk

Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men…

— Colin Jordan

I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can…

— Thomas Jefferson

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

— Friedrich Schiller

We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity.

— John O'Donohue

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

— Said Nursi

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

— Margaret of Valois

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

— Geoffrey Hill