Duty Quotes

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty.

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

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

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.

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

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

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

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

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

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

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.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

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

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

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

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

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

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.