Duty Quotes · Page 56

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

— Swami Vivekananda

Duty and responsibility first, everything else later. - Kalyani Rajalingham

— Kalyani Rajalingham

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as…

— Plutarch

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

— Woodrow Wilson

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

— Brigham Young

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

— George Arnold

We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic…

— N. T. Wright

I worked on 'Line of Duty' with Vicky McClure after she'd just finished the last series of 'This Is EnglandI think the…

— Daniel Mays

Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I…

— Bryan Procter

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be…

— Robert Southey

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part…

— Bertrand Russell

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children…

— Ezra Cornell

Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an…

— Jim Yong Kim

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a…

— Curtis Sliwa

The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its…

— Victor Hugo

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will…

— Rick Riordan

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject…

— Martha Finley

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties…

— Louis D. Brandeis

No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that…

— Herbert Spencer

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

— Edward Abbey

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

— Earl Wilson

It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.

— Charles Kennedy

I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left

— Alden W. Clausen

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

— William DeWitt Hyde

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the…

— Thomas Merton

To see the Law by Christ fulfilled, And hear His pardoning voice Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice.

— Anonymous

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

— E. B. White

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

— Lord Byron

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

— George Mason

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear…

— George Washington

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

— Mencius

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams