Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

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

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan Watts

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus

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

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Dave Barry

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

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.
Andrew Jackson

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson

I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton