Duty Quotes · Page 64

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

— Molly Corbett Broad

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock

— W. H. Auden

When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

— Confucius

I don't usually like to talk about this type of stuff, but I have a huge TV. I bought it just for…

— Roy Hibbert

“Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it…

— Peter Ustinov

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

— Albert Einstein

Even as the leader of the party, my first duty always is to the people who elected me, my first duty always…

— Annamie Paul

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without…

— Jonathan Sacks

Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and…

— Pope John XXIII

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no…

— Anonymous

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed…

— Charlie Siem

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in…

— Tryon Edwards

I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world,…

— H. P. Blavatsky

At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective…

— Karen Abbott

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he…

— Andreas Osiander

I think we've got to look at corporate law. Back in the day when I studied it, there were different constituencies that…

— Hillary Clinton

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public…

— Ray Brassier

“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated…

— Francis Parker Yockey

“Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on…

— Donna Tartt

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

— Ambrose Bierce

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

— George Whitefield

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

— Ross Parsley

It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

— Haile Selassie

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

— John Marshall

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

— George Eliot

Our soldiers in Siachen are performing their duty with great courage and fortitude, even in extreme conditions and treacherous terrain.

— Rajnath Singh

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

— James Thurber

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in…

— Chanakya

I've spent most of my life like most Americans - without any immediate connection to active duty military.

— Brianna Keilar

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are…

— Stephen Mitchell

“You have a duty to exploit your day and your time so you can live a prosperous life filled with activity and…

— Businessman Company

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have…

— Dean Koontz

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise...

— William Osler

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

— Thomas Carlyle

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

— Ernst Toller