Duty Quotes · Page 34

Doing good is our duty as children of God.

— Innah Delos Angeles

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

— Shari Arison

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic…

— Robertson Davies

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

— Otto Weininger

It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.

— Charlotte Gerson

I learned about injustice young. That I had a duty to not be complicit, to not turn the other way.

— Ashley Biden

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

— Thomas Paine

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and…

— Lorenzo Snow

When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not…

— Arthur Miller

The prayers you perform, the duties you do, the charity and love you give is equal to just one drop. But if…

— Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear…

— Richard Steele

You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can…

— Mallory Ortberg

When I came to Washington, I believed that I had one duty, one purpose. I was elected to serve my district, my…

— Madison Cawthorn

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man…

— Norman Mailer

Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by…

— Jacques Monod

My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and…

— Anonymous

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…

— Lewis Mumford

Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my…

— Andrew Johnson

EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline…

— Noah Webster

As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision…

— Alexander Hamilton

Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal,…

— Virginia Satir

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life…

— Michel de Montaigne

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

— George Washington

Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours…

— Matt Cain

My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.

— William H. Pryor

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

— James Madison

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

— Pierre Charron

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

— Libba Bray

“holiness is a privilege, as well as a duty; it is a reward, a benefit to him who walks therein.”

— Various

“. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”

— Donna Tartt

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

— Charlie Gonzalez

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and…

— Thomas Jefferson

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

— Theresa May

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own…

— Brigham Young

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

— Jeff Foxworthy