Duty Quotes · Page 21

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

— John Milton

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I play 'Call of Duty' a lot with the photographer, Gunner Stahl.

— Nav

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last...

— Adoniram Judson

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

— E. M. Forster

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

— Tiberius

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

— George W. Bush

But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

— John Henry Newman

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward…

— Gouverneur Morris

“There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.”

— Jane Austen

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

I've always felt like in a democracy - this is how I was raised - that as a citizen, it's your duty…

— Mikie Sherrill

As an MP, my first duty is to act in the national interest, regardless of party affiliation.

— Dominic Grieve

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a…

— Frank Herbert

I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the…

— Alex Rodriguez

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to…

— William Jennings Bryan

Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops…

— Paul Virilio

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of…

— Thomas Paine

It isn't enough to just be on the journey; we must be awake to our duty and continue with faith as we…

— Carole M. Stephens

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things…

— Audre Lorde

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if…

— Paul Polman

I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at…

— Alfred Adler

I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions.…

— Gustave Flaubert

There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she…

— Anthony Hope

To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the…

— Neal A. Maxwell

...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made,…

— Noah Webster

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it…

— James Madison

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

— Thomas Carlyle

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

— Anonymous

I pay tribute to Theresa May for her sense of duty and her resilience.

— Nick Boles

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

— Anonymous

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

— Max Jacob

“How can I do my duty if I do not know where it lies?”

— George R.R. Martin

“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.”

— Thomas Paine

The first duty of society is justice.

— Alexander Hamilton