Duty Quotes
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Duty Quotes & Sayings
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It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.
— Tim Berners-Lee
The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
— Thomas Carlyle
They held it their duty to live but for their country.
— William Godwin
If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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
It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
— John D. Rockefeller
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
— Rene Balcer
I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
— Eliza Lynn Linton
It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
— Pope John Paul II
It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show.
— Anthony Burgess
We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity.
— John O'Donohue
It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.
— Billy Childish
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
— Randall Terry
When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
— James Madison
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
— Phillips Brooks
Our holy duty is to pray. The answer belongs to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Liberty is a duty, not a right.
— Benito Mussolini
It is the duty that separates men from boys
— Aporva Kala
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
— Sophie Swetchine
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
In the end faith always moves beyond mental assent and duty and will involve the whole self - mind, will, and emotions. Why
— Timothy J. Keller
I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.
— Narendra Modi
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
— Terry Goodkind
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
— Haile Gebrselassie
It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.
— Vance Havner
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
— Napoleon Hill
I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
— David O. Russell
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
— Jose Marti
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.
— Rebecca Solnit
If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.
— Julian Barnes
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
— George Washington
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
— Helen Keller
vowing himself to "just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." After
— Philip Roth
What should a man strive for? Kama - love, dharma - duty, artha - wealth, and moksha - salvation.
— Ashwin Sanghi
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
— Alan Keyes
There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.
— Paul Watson
I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.
— Donatella Versace
When life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us
— Thomas Mann
We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.
— Blanche Willis Howard
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
— Mortimer J. Adler
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
— Ralph Barton Perry
Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world ... Focus on your main duty
— Epictetus
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
— Richard Asher
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.
— William Branch Giles
Duty without love is deplorable.Duty with love is desirable.
Love without duty is Divine. — Sathya Sai Baba
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history.
— Frank Herbert
Duty is whatever opposes inclination.
— Mason Cooley
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
— Plutarch
The human species' foremost task and unshakable duty is survival.
— Carlos J. Cortes
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
— Stephen King
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
— J. William Fulbright
Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
My duty is to obey orders.
— Stonewall Jackson
Do well the duty that lies before you.
— Pittacus Of Mytilene
The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.
— James Buchanan
It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.
— Charles Kennedy
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
— Hannah More
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
— John D. Rockefeller
Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us
— Adolf Hitler
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
— Vincent Van Gogh