Duties Quotes

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.

I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.