Duty Quotes

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.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Right before Pamela Anderson met Tommy Lee I got this crazy script to do this incredible movie with her where I play this cop with a young partner like Brad Pitt who is in love with Pamela Anderson and he gets killed in the line of duty and she falls in love with me and it gets really crazy. I turned that down.

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.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.