Duty Quotes
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
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For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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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.
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
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Our duty is to be patient.