Duty Quotations

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort

I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it is our moral duty to serve our fellow man regardless of race, sex, affiliation or creed, and when we serve, we believe that it is the state's duty to get out of the way.

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

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected

Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.

I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.

In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.

Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.

The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.

At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.

I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

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

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.

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 think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.

Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

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

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

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

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.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably.

All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.

And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

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.

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

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

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Of all the games I've done, the only time I've ever lost my voice was on 'Call Of Duty 2,' playing a rasping Russian captain on the Stalingrad level.

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

In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children.

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

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the authoritarian style of the dead communist experience. It seems that it is no longer society's obligation to understand legislation; it is a duty for governments to be understood by their people.

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

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is how a girl dresses when she's off duty and she has to put her own looks together - no small challenge!