Duty Quotes

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

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.

Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.

The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings

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

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

New occasions teach new duties.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.

I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

Alloted duty means you should live full potentiality with which you are born.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.