Duty Quotes · Page 57

There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's…

— Anonymous

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret if for the friends I leave behind

— Zachary Taylor

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

— Robert E. Lee

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

— Elizabeth I

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most…

— Harold Brodkey

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

— Steve Bannon

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only…

— Holly Black

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

— Marco Pierre White

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction…

— Asa Gray

God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it…

— Mark Galli

For me, I have a bunch of friends back home in Canada who play online all the time - so we get…

— Andrew Wiggins

There is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely; no reason…

— Nile Kinnick

Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you,…

— David Harsanyi

I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied…

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

Your first duty is to be yourself. You can't always get what you want, but if you try you just might get…

— Bernajoy Vaal

By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure…

— Pascal Bruckner

Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,…

— Russell Kirk

Safety and security are the most basic job of government. I understand that - both as a mayor who works every day…

— Pete Buttigieg

Every child is a gift of Allah, and every child in Pakistan, to me, is like my own child, so I will…

— Shahid Afridi

It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the…

— Ban Ki-moon

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that…

— Mark Satin

Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill…

— Anne Bronte

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

— William George Jordan

As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.

— Brianna Keilar

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it

— Michael Tsarion

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

I think you have a duty and a responsibility to entertain. We have to always remember that there's a public to be…

— Alex Ferguson

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...

— Anonymous

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in…

— Oscar Wilde

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men… This is what God expects of us

— John Taylor

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good…

— Pat Conroy

“Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.”

— Chris Galford

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

— Frances Power Cobbe

“How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?”

— Anonymous

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

— Confucius

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

— Nelson Mandela