Duty Quotes · Page 30

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

— John Ruskin

“We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.”

— Selma Dabbagh

I'll spend time playing 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor.'

— Kevin Dillon

I take my 'advice and consent' duty as a U.S. senator very seriously.

— Bob Casey, Jr

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.

— Christabel Pankhurst

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

— Tryon Edwards

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

— Edmund Burke

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

— Henry Edward Manning

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

— Anonymous

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

— J. Frank Dobie

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

— Emmerson Mnangagwa

I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

— Anonymous

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare…

— Lottie Moon

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore…

— Douglas Adams

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher…

— Julian Baggini

Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that…

— Charles Spurgeon

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized…

— Evan Bayh

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character…

— Ken Watanabe

My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't…

— Damian Lewis

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The president has a duty and a right to oversee the FBI, and you know, he properly delegate the law enforcement to…

— Laura Ingraham

Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter…

— Lysander Spooner

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[John McCain] stopped connecting and just looked at my chest and decided, "I'm just gonna continue to talk about honor and duty…

— Jon Stewart

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A…

— Aleister Crowley

The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and…

— Mary Hunter Austin

The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of…

— Adolf Hitler

Performing your duty is the highest form of worship.

— Senoraroy

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

— Shami Chakrabarti

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

— Alan Bennett

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

— Marie de France

It's my duty to upkeep and safeguard my voice, my ability to sing.

— K. J. Yesudas

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

— Anonymous

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

— Zig Ziglar