Doing Your Duty Quotes

Duty is doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons, without regard to the cost to one's self. — Angelo Dirks

She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty. — LL Cool J

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty. — Slavoj Zizek

Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing — Konrad Lorenz

You know your duty and you are doing it. It isn't your fault if Althea can't appreciate that. — Robin Hobb

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion. — W. C. Brownell

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty. — Leon Panetta

Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear. — Dennis Rainey

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. — Charles Baudelaire

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. — George Bernard Shaw

There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. — John Tillotson

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways. — Martin Scorsese

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations. — Narendra Modi

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning. — John Banville

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. — Walter Scott

I didn't spend an afternoon doing my hair and makeup to go on demon-duty. — Cherie Colyer

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness. — Zoroaster

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. — Mark Twain

I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway. — Jo Brand

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do. — Joyce Meyer

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it. — Washington Gladden

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. — Carlos Santana

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general. — Kelly Ayotte

You are the God. You are the embodiment of God. The moment you start to love everyone and everything, you are doing your divine duty. — Debasish Mridha

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. — Zig Ziglar

If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty. — Agatha Christie

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love. — George MacDonald

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. — Jean De La Bruyere

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art — William Blake

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty .. — Franz Stangl

He had become the living representation of how men liked to think of themselves: one man doing an awful duty and doing it well, against the odds. — Anonymous

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race. — Andrew Carnegie

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty. — Jean Baudrillard

Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship. — Brigham Young

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Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. — Benjamin Franklin

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty. — John Lubbock

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do. — Walter Bagehot

A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation. — Donald Horne

What are you doing this afternoon, Griselda?" "My duty," said Griselda. "My duty as the Vicaress. Tea and scandal at four thirty. — Agatha Christie

Courage meant overcoming fear and doing one's duty in the presence of danger, not being unafraid. — Eugene B. Sledge

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. — John Ruskin

I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty. — Gordon Brown

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi