Duty Quotes

• The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Terms

• There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Modesty
  • Races
  • Propriety

• The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Woman
  • Duty
  • Status

• Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

  

  William Osler
  • Time
  • Exercise
  • Hours

• At times, non-cooperation becomes as much a duty as cooperation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Times

• Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Performance
  • Morality

• No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution - of whatever race, creed or persuasion.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We shall do our duty. We shall not surrender our freedom and our very existence to Jewish or any other power. We shall preserve our heritage and our hard-won rights and freedoms. We shall guide our people up the evolutionary stairway to the stars.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Existence
  • Survival

• Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

  

  William Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Heaven
  • Creator

• It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Pride
  • Charge
  • Minister Of God

• The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Duty
  • Obedience

• There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Duty
  • Giving Up
  • Ablaze

• A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Party
  • Average

• I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Community
  • Property
  • Consider

• Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Duty
  • Reflect
  • Troubled

• Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Freedom
  • Citizens

• The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

  

  Simon Bolivar
  • Education
  • Government
  • Duty

• For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Study
  • Duty
  • Astronomer

• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Understand
  • Destruction
  • Slandered

• It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Duty
  • Cost
  • Port

• The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

  

  William Thomas Stead
  • Duty
  • Journalist
  • Watchman

• This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

  

  Gerald Massey
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Duty

• It is our duty to serve those who serve us.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Duty

• I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Military
  • Interest

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