Duty Quotes - Page 20

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

Some really famous people, even when they're off-duty, have this energy that is sort of overpowering.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

Do not forget duty. But choose love when you can.

I vote and I do jury duty.