Duty Quotes
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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.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Albert Einstein
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If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society.
William Wilberforce -
Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
Colleen McCullough -
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
Anne Baxter -
In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
Zachary Taylor -
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
William Shakespeare -
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.
William Jennings Bryan
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It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
William Wilberforce -
I used to own Jimi Hendrix’s manager’s Shelby Cobra. Then Customs and Excise took it because the duty hadn’t been paid.
Andy Fairweather Low Amen Corner -
It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
Daniel Coit Gilman -
The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.
Alan Blinder -
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.
Luke Ford -
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.
Kevin Spacey
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May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.
Adolf Hitler -
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
Lord Byron -
Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
Malachy McCourt -
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
Adrian Rogers -
The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
African Spir
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I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.
William Carey -
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William Gurnall -
She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.
LL Cool J -
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert Einstein