First Duty Quotes
- The first duty of a man is to think for himself — Jose Marti
- To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and… — Virginia Woolf
- The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the… — Donna Tartt
- The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. — Oscar Wilde
- The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco
- The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his… — Ayn Rand
- No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to… — John Stuart Mill
- Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.… — Andrew Murray
- Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen." — Paul Tillich
- Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty… — Lanza del Vasto
- The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of… — Virginia Woolf
- Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. — George Orwell
- I think the first duty of society is justice. — Alexander Hamilton
- The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they… — Charles Buxton
- Your first duty is to be yourself. You can't always get what you want, but if you try you just might get what you need.… — Bernajoy Vaal
- The first duty of a woman in her all life is to obey. — Vikrant Parsai
- We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men — George Orwell