Duty Quotes · Page 9

Anything's possible in 'Line of Duty.'

— Adrian Dunbar

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Duty is the sublimest word in our language.

— Robert E Lee

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

— William Shakespeare

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

— George Santayana

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.

— Deeyah Khan

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

— Mark Twain

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

— Maimonides

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only…

— David Brin

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

— William Godwin

Jayasudha and I have acted in several films and it is my duty to campaign for her.

— Jaya Prada

“I may not be able to make a horse drink, but it is my duty to lead it to water.”

— Conrad Taylor

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

— Adam Rippon

“The Girl Scout’s motto is also mine. I fill my life with worthwhile deeds such as — well, never mind what. My…

— Vladimir Nabokov

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as…

— John Redwood

I see this rise in rough sleeping and homelessness - in one of the wealthiest cities in the world - as a…

— Sadiq Khan

Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on…

— Edward Kennedy

Justice Breyer's commitment to an independent, impartial judiciary is unflagging. And, for him, the rule of law is not merely a duty,…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

“And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows…

— Ursula K Le Guin

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the…

— Alan Shepard

I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,…

— Jonathan Mayhew

I think it is important to recall the context of those challenging times immediately following 9/11. For me, I had just returned…

— Gina Haspel

Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they…

— L. Neil Smith

I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life.…

— Neal A. Maxwell

One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth…

— Joyce Meyer

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as…

— Joseph Addison

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a…

— e. e. cummings

Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship…

— M. Scott Peck

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

— Albert Einstein

“No eulogy is due to a man who simply does his duty and nothing more.”

— St. Augustine

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

— Billy Childish

My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.

— August Wilson

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

— Ray Liotta

We have a duty to face racism and to fight it.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

“[...] But my denial doesn't matter, because duty comes first.”

— Ryan Smithson