Duty Quotes · Page 23

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

— William Safire

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

— Moliere

“The duty of pursuit is the grace of prayer.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A son has no greater duty, no higher good, than serving his parents.

— Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

— William Shakespeare

That's my duty. Just make powerful art.

— Matty Healy

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

— George Eliot

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

— David O. Russell

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

— Gustav Krupp

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

— Sydney Thompson Dobell

“Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” he concluded.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work…

— Martin Luther

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

— Vicente Fox

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

— Albert Camus

“Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.”

— Sherwood Smith

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What…

— Rick Bass

If I have been fortunate enough to have risen to a level in this business where people would actually listen to me,…

— Ashleigh Banfield

Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis…

— Tacitus

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good…

— Henry Rollins

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such…

— Immanuel Kant

In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled,…

— J. Richard Clarke

Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence…

— John Hancock

We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a…

— George W. Bush

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine…

— John Rawls

To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature…

— Barbara Bergmann

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series…

— Edith Wharton

When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you…

— Corey Feldman

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into…

— Alfred Edersheim

The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by…

— Anna Brackett

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their…

— John Adams

Look at my record. I have done my duty.

— William H. Pryor

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

— Brendan Behan

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

— W. S. Gilbert

I've been a fan of 'Call of Duty' for a long time.

— DeAndre Jordan

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”

— Che Guevara

It is my duty to bring awareness to people in need.

— Ginuwine

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

— Dana Gould

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

— Chuck Yeager