Top 25 Duty Quotes of 513 - Page 5

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Colin Powell

Might, Call Of Duty, Appearance

Duty cannot exist without faith

Benjamin Disraeli

Duty

Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.139

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Russell Kirk

Rewards, Privilege, Duty

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

Max Lucado

Vines, Branches, Duty

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

Jules Michelet

Firsts, Instruments, Duty

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

George Whitefield

Good Christian, Christianity, Duty

"Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects".

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

George Takei

Citizens, Vote, Duty

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Responsibility, Neglect, Duty

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Progress, Quests, Duty

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

Chloe Grace Moretz

One Day, Warfare, Call Of Duty

"Meet the stars of Scorsese's new blockbuster". Interview With Craig McLean, www.independent.co.uk. November 27, 2011.

I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Light, Darkness, Duty

"Report to Greco".

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

Mahatma Gandhi

Duty, Dearest Friend, Fronts

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

John Adams

Defense, Cardinals, Duty

"The military policy of the United States". Book by Emory Upton, 1912.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

Eric Bogosian

Pissed Off, Duty, Humans

"Fictional character: Jeff". "SubUrbia", www.imdb.com. October 11, 1996.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Earl Wilson

Temptation, Duty, Heard

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.

Daniel Coit Gilman

Lectures, Duty, University

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

Omar Bongo

Country, Duty, Solidarity

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

Rights, Flow, Duty

Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

John Flavel

Secret, Credit, Duty

John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.520

Love is the outlaw's duty.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Love Is, Outlaw, Duty

Jayne Anne Phillips (2011). “Black Tickets: Stories”, p.262, Vintage

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

J. C. Ryle

Mercy, Duty, Gods Will

Beneficence is a duty.

Immanuel Kant

Duty, Beneficence

Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Ethics of Immanuel Kant: Metaphysics of Morals - Philosophy of Law & The Doctrine of Virtue + Perpetual Peace + The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral Reasoning”, p.319, e-artnow