Quotes About Duty

If we are sick, we impose a weary tax upon our friends, and unfit ourselves for discharging our duties to our families and to our neighbors.

It is our privilege, our duty, to receive light from heaven, that we may perceive the wiles of Satan, and obtain strength to resist his power. Provision has been made for us to come into close connection with Christ and to enjoy the constant protection of the angels of God.

Devemos reconhecer o governo humano como algo designado por Deus, e devemos ensinar obediência a ele como um dever sagrado em sua esfera legítima. No entanto, quando suas exigências entram em conflito com as reivindicações de Deus, devemos obedecer a Deus e não aos homens. O "Assim diz o Senhor" não deve ser deixado de lado por causa de um "Assim diz a igreja" ou um "Assim diz o Estado".

It was the right and responsible thing to do, so they put it off until later.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I woke—and found that life was duty.

In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

They are equal in nature (that is, they are both boys). Yet they are separate persons. In most cases one will submit to the other's expertise, insight or perceived authority in the relationship. In this sense one might be described as subservient in duty to the other, at least in certain areas.

La verdad es que el Willy y yo estuvimos agarrando cura, que si prometíamos ser fieles al presidente, gritaba aquel bato, Simón, respondíamos nosotros, pero si nos pasa a sus hijas.

La tristeza es un derecho humano? Si no es debería serlo.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Fall to love's lot i.e. let loving both great & small be/become and remain your task/responsibility for life.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

If we do not regard ourselves as entrusted with a mission, existence is difficult; action, impossible.

Annas and Caiaphas embodied, to my eyes, good sense itself.

The solutions offered by our ancestral cowardice are the worst desertions of our duty to intellectual decency. To be fooled, to live and die duped, is certainly what men do. But there exists a dignity which keeps us from disappearing into God and which transforms all our moments into prayers we shall never offer.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. A printed work which cannot be read becomes a product without purpose.

Liberty is the daughter of authority properly understood. For to be free is not to do what one pleases; it is to be the master of oneself, it is to know how to act within reason and to do one's duty.

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London ' I'll go and do it.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality.

The House of Commons has inquired into most things, but has never had a committee on "the Queen". There is no authentic blue-book to say what she does. Such an investigation cannot take place; but if it could, it would probably save her much vexatious routine, and many toilsome and unnecessary hours.

Indeed, for us alone, who are called the enemies of the Christian religion, for us alone it is reserved, and even made the highest duty ... really to exercise love, this highest commandment of Christ and this only way to true Christianity.