Duty Quotes

• We are not people apart; there is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely; no reason why we shouldn't suffer to uphold that which we want to endure than it is anyone else. And it is a matter of self-preservation right this very minute...May God give me courage to do my duty and not falter.

  

  Nile Kinnick
  • Courage
  • Fight
  • Duty

• Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Fever

• Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Faith
  • Opinion

• These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Character
  • Wish
  • Purpose

• I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.

  

  Jessy White
  • Life
  • Commitment
  • Duty

• 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.

  

  Ashraf Dehghani
  • Revolution
  • Duty
  • Torture

• Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

  

  William Law
  • Religious
  • Perfection
  • Holy

• All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

  

  Steve King
  • Duty
  • Citizens
  • Benefits

• The atmosphere in the school lunchroom is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Prison
  • Atmosphere
  • Teachers

• It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.

  

  Chris Bradford
  • Peace
  • Fighting
  • Duty

• 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.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Know
  • Reflection
  • Duty

• Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Children
  • Care
  • Animal

• Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

  

  George W. Bush
  • Listening
  • Leadership
  • Duty

• 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.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • People
  • Strong
  • Desire

• Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

  

  Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers
  • Fight
  • Duty
  • Fought

• Violence is sometimes a duty.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Violence
  • Duty

• The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Action
  • Duty
  • Angels

• 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.

  

  George Eliot
  • Friend
  • Duty
  • Gates

• 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.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Animal
  • Protect
  • Welfare

• Trying to be just a parliamentarian doing your duty and trying to keep family out and also the celebrity status out is rare and hopefully I have been able thus far to - been able to protect my wife and children.

  

  Eric Abetz
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Wife

• One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Authority
  • Perform
  • Require

• The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Health
  • Morality
  • Conscious

• If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Vocation

• Words can cause real harm and interfere with a person's education. Campuses have a duty to act-- sometimes legally, always morally-- to protect their students from injury.

  

  Erwin Chemerinsky
  • Words
  • Education
  • Protect

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