Duty Quotes

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

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

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty.

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.