Duty Quotes - Page 13

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.

Missionary service is a priesthood duty.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.

There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

The true source of rights is duty.

The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.