Duty Quotes

Love can do much, but duty more.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Consult duty not events.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

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

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

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

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

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

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

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his 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 feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

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.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

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

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

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

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

We all have the duty to do good.

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 first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

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

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

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.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

I vote and I do jury duty.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.