Duty Quotes

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell

Men, Sometimes, Obvious

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle

Become, Lies, Second

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce

Opinion, Another, Vote

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Ambrose Bierce

Desire, Direction, Line

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

Cannot, Wish, Word

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

Happen, America, American

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

Personal, Collective

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Keep, Often, While

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Patriotism, True, Matter

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

Life, Work, Joy

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

Women, Men, Ability

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

Power, Social, Welfare

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Time, Islam, Past

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin

Education, Government, Food

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine

Nothing, Him, Simply

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.
Rose Kennedy

Love, Work, Best

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fear, Teacher, Lasting

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

Faith, Opinion, Public

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

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin

Two, Goodness, Kinds

Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli

Faith, Cannot, Exist

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory

Country, Voting, Places

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

Women, Men, Though

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Useful, Desires, According

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana

Death, Sleep, Done

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot

Power, Another, Reward

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

Happiness, Flower, Natural

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Thomas Szasz

Yourself, Selfish, Self

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

Obligation, Possession, Implies

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer

Peace, Time, Help

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