Duty Quotes

The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

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.

We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.