Duty Quotes

• I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Military
  • Interest

• I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Real
  • Age
  • Decision

• Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Law
  • Duty
  • Reverence

• It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

  

  Eliza R. Snow
  • Woman
  • Duty
  • Holy

• A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

  

  Albert Kesselring
  • Soldier
  • Duty
  • Obey

• Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

  

  John Ruskin
  • True
  • Future
  • Duty

• It's really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it's your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it's easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Trash

• Beneficence is a duty.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Duty
  • Beneficence

• One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

  

  William Osler
  • Education
  • Health
  • Firsts

• I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Malice

• The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

  

  George Washington
  • Slave
  • Hatred
  • Affection

• There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

  

  Alfred Edersheim
  • Faith
  • Patience
  • Duty

• Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Action

• The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

  

  William Thomas Stead
  • Duty
  • Journalist
  • Watchman

• It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Pride
  • Charge
  • Minister Of God

• Your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pleasure
  • Living
  • Married

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

  

  George Eliot
  • Power
  • Duty
  • Reward

• Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Civilization
  • Duty
  • Conduct

• Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Protect

• It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance.

  

  Brad Montague
  • Reason
  • Dance
  • Duty

• I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.

  

  Ayad Allawi
  • Freedom
  • Duty
  • Reconciliation

• Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Duty
  • Laws
  • Obey

• Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Duty
  • Simplicity
  • Midsummer

• There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Duty
  • Giving Up
  • Ablaze

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