Duty Quotes

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.

It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

It is our duty to serve those who serve us.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

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

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

The first duty of life is to live.

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.