Duty Quotes
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
William Shakespeare
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What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are 200,000 women in active duty, and over 40% of them are moms. This experience is shared by thousands of women, and no one is right or wrong.
Michelle Monaghan
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
George Bernard Shaw
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To abandon duty is to destroy that which makes any individual unique and capable of prodigious feats.
Eric Van Lustbader
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The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.
Nicholas Sparks
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I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty. If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time. The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.
Ernst Rohm
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Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.
Wasif Ali Wasif
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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
William Penn
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Beneficence is a duty.
Immanuel Kant
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I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.
Sarah Kay
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
William Hazlitt
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I will always recommend Goodwin & Thyne Properties to all my friends and business associates, thank you for going over and beyond the call of duty!
Andy Romano
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My duty is to obey orders.
Stonewall Jackson
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Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.
Charles Grandison Finney
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are following Allah's word. We believe that humanity's only duty is to honor Allah and his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. We are implementing what is written in the Koran. If we manage to do so, then of course it will be a success.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
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I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.
Nina Bawden
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.
Blaise Pascal
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Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
Albert Camus
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A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.
Albert Kesselring