Quotes on Duty

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Author: Mortimer Adler

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.

Author: King Albert II

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Author: James Allen

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Author: Henri Amiel

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Author: Saint Augustine

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Author: Saint Augustine

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Author: Dave Barry

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

Author: Nellie Bly

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.

Author: Hjalmar Branting

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Author: Eric Brown

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Author: Lois Bujold

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

Author: John Burns

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

Author: Samuel Butler

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

Author: Arthur Capper

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Author: Benjamin Cardozo

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

Author: Iris Chang

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

Author: Ramsey Clark

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Author: Adam Clarke

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

Author: William Clifford

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.

Author: Charlie Dent

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Author: John Fowles

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

Author: James Froude

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

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

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

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

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

Author: Gordon Gee

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Author: William Godwin

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

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

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

Author: Abbie Hoffman

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Author: Oliver Holmes, Jr.

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

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

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

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

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Author: Stephanie Jones

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

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

Author: Thomas Kempis

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

Author: Ellen Key

Consult duty not events.

Author: Walter Landor

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

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

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

Author: Robert Lee

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

Author: Ray Liotta

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

Author: John Lubbock

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

Author: George MacDonald

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

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

Author: Jose Marti

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

Author: David McKay

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

Author: Joseph McKenna

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

Author: Thomas Meagher

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

Author: Mencius

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

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

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

Author: John Mortimer

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

Author: Hassan Nasrallah

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

Author: Liam Neeson

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Author: Horatio Nelson

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

Author: George Norris

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Author: Ann Oakley

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

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

Author: John Randolph

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

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

Author: John Rockefeller, Jr.

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

Author: Ernst Rohm

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

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

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

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

Author: David Russell

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

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

Author: Lucius Seneca

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

Author: George Shaw

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

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

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

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

Author: Samuel Smiles

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

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

Author: John Spratt

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

Author: Elizabeth Stanton

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

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Author: William Styron

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

Author: Herbert Swope

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

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

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

Author: Tiberius

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

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

Author: Benjamin Wade

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

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

Author: Edith Wharton

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

Author: Oscar Wilde

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

Author: Earl Wilson

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

Author: Niklaus Wirth