Duty Quotes

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

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

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

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

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.