Duty Quotes - Page 21

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

Happy the man who knows his duties!

It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

Duty should be a byproduct.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

When we were attacked militarily it was our duty to defend our country.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

Duty is ours and events are God's.