Duty Quotes · Page 77

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

— Peter Ustinov

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

— Robert A. Heinlein

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

— Mervyn Peake

It's great for people who like the teamwork and that also like the commando style, and that's why I think 'Call of…

— Karl-Anthony Towns

Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties.

— Doug Larson

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

— Ernst Fischer

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

— Andrew Johnson

The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

— James Patterson

When I feel that burden of representation in public spaces, it helps to recognize that it's a duty - a job, really.…

— Janet Mock

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than…

— Patrick Leahy

The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties…

— John Allen Fraser

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into…

— George Washington

The training that service members go through is grueling, but it instills in them everything they need to be successful on the…

— Brian Mast

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and…

— Charles Simmons

I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour…

— Sean Penn

The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government…

— Thomas Sowell

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my…

— George Lopez

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense…

— Anonymous

Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And…

— Nancy Chodorow

I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have…

— Bertrand Russell

When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and…

— Elihu Root

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and…

— Edmund Burke

Tribes don't need Congressmembers' sympathy. What tribes need is for us to properly exercise our duty.

— Sharice Davids

It is our duty as fighters to evolve and get better and show a better performance for the fans.

— Mauricio Rua

“Now we go in and take over," answered A. "It's our duty to help these people.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.

— Vyasa

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work…

— Martin Luther

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

— Sydney Thompson Dobell

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

— Gustav Krupp

“Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” he concluded.”

— Leo Tolstoy

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to…

— John Calvin

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to…

— Benjamin Franklin

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

— John Henry Newman

But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

— George W. Bush

As an MP, my first duty is to act in the national interest, regardless of party affiliation.

— Dominic Grieve