Duty Quotes - Page 19

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone." She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you." "I am quite certain it is my gentlemanly duty." "To eat cake?" "It is one of the more appealing of my gentlemanly duties," he allowed.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.