Duty Quotes

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
Thomas Francis Meagher

Hope, America, Moral

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

Care, Follow, Standards

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.
Alberto Juantorena

Good, Important, Hard

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Challenge, Status, Happening

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.
Ruud van Nistelrooy

Thankful, Here, Won

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
Roberto Benigni

Beauty, Laugh, Try

Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
Sebastian Junger

Men, Society, Leader

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
John Nelson Darby

God, Care, Word

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.
John Nelson Darby

Evil, Christian, Sin

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.
Joe Scarborough

War, School, Fun

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Paul Ricoeur

Thought, Regrets, Ethics

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
David Brin

Write, Idea, Second

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
Antony Beevor

Understand, Simply, Convey

To do my duty, I must obey God.
Roy Moore

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?
Artur Davis

Government, Yourself, Compassion

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
Diane Watson

Government, Words, Nation

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.
Nina Bawden

Different, Bit, Pot

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.
Nina Bawden

Fear, Put, Lives

It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.
Bill Frist

Forward, Moving, America

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
Bill Frist

Life, Daily, Small

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

War, Failure, Nation

My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
Ibrahim Rugova

Work, Future, Country

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

Others, Desire, Ourselves

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
Princess Margaret

Marriage, Christian, Before

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.
Robert Byrd

Liberty, American, Speak

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.
Goldwin Smith

Real, Question, India

Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.
Chris Chocola

Time, Government, Said

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
Wilfrid Laurier

Government, Finance, Country

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
Maria Monk

Everything, Impossible, She

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy de Maupassant

War, Government, Avoid

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