Duty Quotes

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

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

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took my daughter to school on the East Side, which was a lot of fun. And I admit I played Call of Duty, one of those war video games.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

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.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.