Duty Quotes
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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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.
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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
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In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.
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Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.
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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."
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Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met.
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
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Violence is sometimes a duty.
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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.
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All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
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One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
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Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.
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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
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Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
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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.
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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
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Thoughts are not subject to duty.
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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
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On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand it is a pleasure to help those who feel worse than you.
