Duty Quotes - page 8

Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live - not "happily" - but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize. (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky)
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. View quote
Ian McEwan
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization. View quote
Matthew Stover
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future. View quote
Ibrahim Rugova
To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. View quote
Emil Cioran
Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. View quote
Robert Blair
We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow. View quote
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense. (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. View quote
Abigail Adams
Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a kind of instinct in the Soul breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage which proceeds from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason. View quote
Joseph Addison
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more. View quote
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left... View quote
James Connolly
I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation. View quote
John Wesley
Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. View quote
John Wesley
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom - because that's all dung to a soldier. View quote
David Gemmell
I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty. (John Kerry)
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century? View quote
Friedrich Schiller
I got jury duty ... and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." View quote
Sarah Silverman
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. View quote
George Washington