Duty Quotes
-
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
-
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
-
Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind.
-
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
-
To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.
-
There is a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.
-
In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
-
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?
-
The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
-
In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict.
-
It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance.
-
Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am
-
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
-
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.
-
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art.
-
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
-
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
-
The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.
-
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
-
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
-
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.
-
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.
-
It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.
-
Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.
