Duty Quotes

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

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

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.

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

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

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

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

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

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Love can do much, but duty more.

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

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

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.

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.