Duty Quotes

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

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.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

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.

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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.