Duty Quotes - page 5

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. (Theodore Parker)
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. View quote
Marcel Proust
Make it a point to do something every day that you dont want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. View quote
Mark Twain
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Duty cannot exist without faith. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Thank God, I have done my duty. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own that thing is the preservation of their own liberties and institutions. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. View quote
Marc Chagall
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. (Albert Einstein)
Love is a better teacher than duty. View quote
Albert Einstein
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? View quote
Pierre Loti
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty. View quote
Henri La Fontaine
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives. View quote
David McCallum
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. View quote
James Hillman
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. View quote
Kenzo Tange
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. View quote
Norm Crosby
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. View quote
William Weld
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth. (Abbas Kiarostami)
Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called. View quote
Bill Shuster
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. View quote
Dan Castellaneta
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. View quote
Tom G. Palmer
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian. View quote
William Gurnall