Duty Quotes

We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

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.

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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.