Duty Quotes

• 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

• I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Win
  • I Know
  • Birthright

• Liberty is not a right but a duty.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Liberty
  • Duty

• Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • God
  • Man
  • Fellow-Man

• God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Charity
  • Obedience
  • Bless

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

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Duty
  • Cost
  • Port

• 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.

  

  Astley Cooper
  • Danger
  • Duty
  • Inflict

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

  

  Simon Bolivar
  • Education
  • Government
  • Duty

• It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • Prayer
  • Duty
  • Privilege

• 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

• Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Christian
  • News
  • Spreading

• Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Children
  • Food
  • Inspired

• Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Progress
  • Step
  • Repudiate

• To abandon duty is to destroy that which makes any individual unique and capable of prodigious feats.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Duty
  • Feats
  • Prodigious

• The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Player
  • Path
  • Golf

• My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Wit

• 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

• What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are 200,000 women in active duty, and over 40% of them are moms. This experience is shared by thousands of women, and no one is right or wrong.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Real
  • Stories
  • Honest

• The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Justice
  • Charity

• The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

  

  George Eliot
  • Power
  • Duty
  • Reward

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

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Duty
  • Obedience

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

  

  William Thomas Stead
  • Duty
  • Journalist
  • Watchman

• The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Pleasure
  • Duty

• On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Religion
  • Opinions
  • Dissent

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