Duty Quotes

• If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Effort
  • Duty
  • Cloud

• 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.

  

  Alexis Carrel
  • Destiny
  • Duty
  • Transformed

• The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Cheese

• As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.

  

  Tulsi Gabbard
  • Soldier
  • Duty
  • Built

• The first duty of life is to live.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • Life
  • Duty

• It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

  

  Astley Cooper
  • Confidence
  • Duty
  • Recovery

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Life
  • Forgiveness
  • Duty

• The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

  

  Tony Blair
  • Community
  • Problem
  • Interest

• 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

• Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Distance
  • Duty
  • Met

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

  

  Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers
  • Fight
  • Duty
  • Fought

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

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Health
  • Morality
  • Conscious

• Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Duty
  • Authority
  • Distrust

• 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.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Crazy
  • Duty
  • Combat

• You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

  

  David Barton
  • Right
  • Vote
  • Have

• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  

  Stephen King
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Enemies

• Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heart
  • Darkness
  • Duty

• The gospel does not abolish industry, but changes its nature and chief design; it dignifies toil, mitigates the evils connected therewith, and creates new motives to diligence. The triumph achieved on Calvary never was designed to supersede the duty of close application to enterprising duty. Its first command compels us to some honorable and useful pursuit. Its language is," Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands as we commanded you." " If any man will not work, neither let him eat."

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Design
  • Industry
  • Gospel

• One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

  

  William Carey
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Firsts

• The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Duty

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