Duty Quotes
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The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
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In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
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Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
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I used to own Jimi Hendrix’s manager’s Shelby Cobra. Then Customs and Excise took it because the duty hadn’t been paid.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.
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Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
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Clearly the will of the people is that the Legislature make as its 'paramount' duty -- its top priority -- the education of all children. Not just some -- all.
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It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
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If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.
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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
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The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.
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The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.
