300 Quotes on Duty

• Immortality, ferried by the pulse of technology, might eliminate the fear of death not by sirening truth but by insulating us from desperate living--challenging entirely what it means to act with purpose.

  Author: Aarti Rajvora

• Inherited futures bear threads of both burden and blossom; we find ourselves working with others' dreams interwoven with our own skepticism.

  Author: Elina Prowse

• When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

  Author: Mary Wortley

• When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

  Author: John Woolman

• Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

  Author: Stephen Wise

• Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

  Author: John Wise

• My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

  Author: Niklaus Wirth

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

  Author: Earl Wilson

• Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

  Author: William Wilberforce

• I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

  Author: George Whitefield

• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  Author: Edith Wharton

• It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

  Author: Rebecca West

• I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

  Author: William Weld

• Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

  Author: Alan Watts

• It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

  Author: Diane Watson

• My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

  Author: George Washington

• I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

  Author: James Walsh

• What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

  Author: Alfred Wallace

• But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

  Author: Benjamin Wade

• Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

  Author: Swami Vivekananda

• The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

  Author: Antonio Villaraigosa

• Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

  Author: Guy Verhofstadt

• Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  Author: Eamon Valera

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

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

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

  Author: Ernst Toller

• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

  Author: Tiberius

• It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

  Author: Randall Terry

• If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

  Author: Randall Terry

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  Author: Randall Terry

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

  Author: Zachary Taylor

• I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

  Author: James Taylor

• I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

  Author: Kenzo Tange

• It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

  Author: Herbert Swope

• The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

  Author: William Styron

• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

  Author: Laurence Sterne

• It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

  Author: Howard Staunton

• Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

  Author: Ken Starr

• Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

  Author: Edwin Stanton

• An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

  Author: Henry Stanley

• Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Author: Madame Stael

• Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

  Author: John Spratt

• The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

  Author: Lisa Snowdon

• When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

  Author: Patti Smith

• Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

  Author: Patti Smith

• Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .

  Author: Swami Sivananda

• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  Author: Charles Simmons

• The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

  Author: Hugh Sidey

• Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.

  Author: John Shimkus

• There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

  Author: George Shaw

• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  Author: Fiona Shaw

• May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

  Author: Florida Scott-Maxwell

• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  Author: Walter Scott

• I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

  Author: Martin Scorsese

• Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

  Author: Robert Schumann

• A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

  Author: Nathalie Sarraute

• For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

  Author: George Santayana

• We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

  Author: Bernard Sanders

• The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.

  Author: Titus Salt

• I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

  Author: David Russell

• A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

  Author: John Ruskin

• The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

  Author: John Ruskin

• The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

  Author: John Ruskin

• My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

  Author: Helen Rowland

• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  Author: Barney Ross

• She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty.

  Author: Ernst Rohm

• If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.

  Author: James Rogers

• We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

  Author: George Rockwell

• Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

  Author: John Rockefeller, Jr.

• Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

  Author: John Rockefeller

• I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

  Author: John Rockefeller

• It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

  Author: James Robinson

• For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

  Author: Paul Ricoeur

• Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

  Author: John Randolph

• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

  Author: George Putnam

• Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  Author: George Putnam

• That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

  Author: Philip Pullman

• During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

  Author: Augusto Pinochet

• The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

  Author: Frances Perkins

• Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

  Author: Lester Pearson

• I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

  Author: George Patton

• He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

  Author: Theodore Parker

• People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

  Author: Kathleen Parker

• The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

  Author: Tom Palmer

• He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

  Author: George Orwell

• We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

  Author: George Orwell

• There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

  Author: Mary Oliver

• The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

  Author: William O'Connell

• Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

  Author: Ann Oakley

• No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

  Author: George Norris

• We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

  Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

• The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

  Author: Reinhold Niebuhr

• Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

  Author: Horatio Nelson

• England expects that every man will do his duty.

  Author: Horatio Nelson

• Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

  Author: Horatio Nelson

• Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.

  Author: Patty Murray

• Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.

  Author: Len Murray

• When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

  Author: Dinah Mulock

• To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

  Author: John Mortimer

• Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

  Author: John Morley

• It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

  Author: John Morgan

• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

  Author: Hannah More

• To do my duty, I must obey God.

  Author: Roy Moore

• Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

  Author: Maria Monk

• The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

  Author: Moliere

• Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

  Author: Joni Mitchell

• If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.

  Author: Lord Milner

• I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

  Author: Zell Miller

• That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

  Author: John Mill

• Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

  Author: Adam Michnik

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

  Author: Mencius

• The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

  Author: Lord Melbourne

• I have done what I felt to be my duty.

  Author: Thomas Meagher

• The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

  Author: Thomas Meagher

• It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

  Author: Thomas Meagher

• The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.

  Author: Joseph McKenna

• Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

  Author: David McKay

• Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

  Author: Bryant McGill

• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  Author: Ian Mcewan

• I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

  Author: David McCallum

• I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

  Author: Jonathan Mayhew

• Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

  Author: Guy Maupassant

• It is the duty of man to raise up man.

  Author: Jose Marti

• Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

  Author: Jose Marti

• The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

  Author: Andre Malraux

• The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

  Author: Henry Maine

• It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

  Author: Harold MacMillan

• He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

  Author: Charles Mackay

• The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

  Author: George MacDonald

• Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

  Author: Mary Lyon

• Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

  Author: John Lubbock

• Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

  Author: James Lowell

• I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

  Author: Pierre Loti

• I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

  Author: Ray Liotta

• The consequence was, that the most sudden and visible good effects were perceived from the use of oranges and lemons; one of those who had taken them, being at the end of 6 days fit for duty.

  Author: James Lind

• Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

  Author: Antonie Leeuwenhoek

• Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

  Author: Robert Lee

• Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

  Author: Robert Lee

• Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

  Author: Robert Lee

• Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

  Author: Bruce Lee

• It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

  Author: Wilfrid Laurier

• We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

  Author: James Larkin

• Consult duty not events.

  Author: Walter Landor

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

  Author: Gustav Krupp

• Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

  Author: Fritz Kreisler

• IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

  Author: Fritz Kreisler

• It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

  Author: Kathe Kollwitz

• The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

  Author: Steve King

• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Author: Stephen King

• The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

  Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

• Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

  Author: Ellen Key

• As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

  Author: Jack Kevorkian

• Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty.

  Author: Ramman Kenoun

• I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  Author: Rose Kennedy

• And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

  Author: Thomas Keneally

• Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

  Author: Thomas Kempis

• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  Author: Fanny Kemble

• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

  Author: Helen Keller

• The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

  Author: Clarence Kelland

• The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

  Author: Wilhelm Keitel

• Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

  Author: John Keegan

• I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

  Author: Ernst Kaltenbrunner

• And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

  Author: Alberto Juantorena

• I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

  Author: Stephanie Jones

• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

  Author: Andrew Johnson

• Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

  Author: Muhammad Jinnah

• With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

  Author: Muhammad Jinnah

• Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

  Author: Hugh Jackman

• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  Author: Washington Irving

• A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

  Author: Charles Inglis

• IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

  Author: Charles Inglis

• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

  Author: Robert Ingersoll

• National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

  Author: Kim Il

• With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

  Author: Joseph Hume

• It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.

  Author: Joseph Hume

• The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

  Author: Kurt Huber

• The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

  Author: William Howells

• The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

  Author: David Houston

• The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

  Author: Abbie Hoffman

• As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

  Author: Adolf Hitler

• The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

  Author: Gilbert Highet

• I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

  Author: Antony Hewish

• When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

  Author: Frank Herbert

• A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

  Author: Brad Henry

• There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

  Author: Lafcadio Hearn

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  Author: Lafcadio Hearn

• To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

  Author: Rutherford Hayes

• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  Author: B. Hart

• Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

  Author: Augustus Hare

• It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

  Author: Jupiter Hammon

• A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

  Author: Dag Hammarskjold

• I think the first duty of society is justice.

  Author: Alexander Hamilton

• I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

  Author: David Guterson

• It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

  Author: William Gurnall

• We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

  Author: Angelina Grimke

• In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

  Author: Dick Gregory

• Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

  Author: Anna Green

• We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

  Author: Asa Gray

• Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

  Author: Robert Graves

• This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

  Author: Charlie Gonzalez

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

  Author: Vincent Gogh

• Love can do much, but duty more.

  Author: Johann Goethe

• They held it their duty to live but for their country.

  Author: William Godwin

• Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

  Author: William Godwin

• It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

  Author: William Gladstone

• The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

  Author: Charlotte Gilman

• If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

  Author: Gordon Getty

• When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

  Author: Gordon Gee

• The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

  Author: James Garfield

• I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

  Author: Ava Gardner

• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

  Author: Christopher Gadsden

• Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

  Author: J. Fulbright

• In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

  Author: James Froude

• The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

  Author: James Froude

• It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

  Author: Bill Frist

• Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

  Author: John Fowles

• Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

  Author: Henri Fontaine

• We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

  Author: Ronald Fisher

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

  Author: Ernst Fischer

• I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

  Author: Bram Fischer

• Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

  Author: Suzanne Fields

• When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

  Author: Henry Fielding

• And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

  Author: Black Elk

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

  Author: George Eliot

• Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

  Author: George Eliot

• The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

  Author: George Eliot

• Love is a better teacher than duty.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

• That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

  Author: Charles Eastman

• Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

  Author: Norman Douglas

• Duty cannot exist without faith.

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

• Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

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