Duty Quotes
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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
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It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance.
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It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
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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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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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Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.
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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.
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India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
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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.
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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.
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The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art.
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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.
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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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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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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.
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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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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and ... but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
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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.
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Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.
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It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.
