Duty Quotes

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.

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Love can do much, but duty more.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

They held it their duty to live but for their country.