Duty Quotes

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future!

Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Life has always been a small matter with me when duty points the way

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

If you feel alone and you've got nowhere to run to, always remember that your family is always there for you. It's their duty.

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

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.

If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

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

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.