Duty Quotes

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company.

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

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Love can do much, but duty more.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

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

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.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

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

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

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

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.

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

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

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 felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.