Duty Quotes - page 3

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. (Marie Curie)
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty. View quote
Horatio Nelson
I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource. View quote
Andrew Johnson
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. View quote
Ronald Reagan
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals. View quote
Clara Zetkin
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. View quote
Etty Hillesum
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. View quote
José Martí
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. (Thomas Jefferson)
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. View quote
Thomas Paine
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the first duty of the educator. View quote
Maria Montessori
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. View quote
Tiberius
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. View quote
André Malraux
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end. View quote
Primo Levi
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. (Bruce Lee)
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. View quote
Robert Jordan
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. View quote
Elie Wiesel