Duty Quotes

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.