Duty Quotes
-
The first duty of life is to live.
-
The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.
-
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
-
There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
-
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
-
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
-
We grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.
-
The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.
-
They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.
-
Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.
-
A sense of duty imprisons you.
-
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.
-
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
-
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
-
When he let Kennedy use his column to send signals to Nikita Khrushchev, or lent his skill to Vandenberg to reinforce the anti-Soviet consensus in American diplomacy, he wasn't acting as a reporter but as a patriot. This urge may be a dereliction of duty in the journalist, but it is a sign of decency in the man. That the two impulses in journalism should so often be at odds — duty versus decency — tells us more about the trade than most of us care to know.
-
And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.
-
It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.
-
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
-
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
-
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
-
Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
-
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
-
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
-
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
