Duty Quotes

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.