Duty Quotes - Page 12

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

Simple duty hath no place for fear.

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]

Duty is the demand of the hour.

Love can do much, but duty more.

What then is your duty? What the day demands.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.