Duty Quotes

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.

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.

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.

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Consult duty not events.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

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.