Duty Quotes · Page 52

Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.

— Ted Lieu

I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.

— Michael Hersch

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

— Narendra Modi

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of…

— Samuel Johnson

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in…

— Seneca the Younger

As a young player, national duty always felt kind of like... a duty. It was always there, it was normal, it was…

— Mario Gomez

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

— Agatha Christie

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I…

— John Knowles

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction…

— Paul Gauguin

We can't always wait on the government to sort out all issues. I think they set policies, they set the rules, but…

— Vincent Kompany

We have to be more courageous and braver and sometimes take a knock. You can't just be a pretty boy, you have…

— Mike Phelan

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be…

— Lord David Cecil

Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood…

— George W. Bush

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being,…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent…

— Frederick Douglass

I take advantage of the ability to fly with helicopters belonging to the federal police force, and this privilege is consistent with…

— Angela Merkel

In order to do a good job a person must like what he or she is doing…'Love thy work', and you will…

— Konosuke Matsushita

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility,…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which…

— George Soros

When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every…

— Heber J. Grant

I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health…

— William J. Clinton

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

— Ovid

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The reason I vouched for reopening liquor vends despite the pandemic was that there was no other source of revenue than excise…

— Amarinder Singh

The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.

— Chelsea Manning

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his…

— Marlon Brando

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

— Charlie Sheen

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

— Clarence Budington Kelland

I feel, as artists, our duty is to keep working and keep making whatever we believe in.

— Sunil Grover

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

— Michael Ramsey

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Obi loved her. But duty was duty. It was as simple as that. She ought to understand. Duty was often stronger than…

— Chika Unigwe

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

— Anonymous

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way…

— Hermann Hesse