Quotes About Duty

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

We all have a duty to try to make the world a better place, Quirke.

Maggie, la criada,

The moral principle 'it is a duty to tell the truth' would, if taken unconditionally and singly, make all society impossible.

Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people.

To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man.

Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

He that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor,

for, in walking thro' the Strand and Fleet-street one morning at seven o'clock, I observ'd there was not one shop open, tho' it had been daylight and the sun up above three hours; the inhabitants of London chusing voluntarily to live much by candle-light, and sleep by sunshine, and yet often complain, a little absurdly, of the duty on candles, and the high price of tallow.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

to take upon us by inoculation when in health a disorder of which some die, requires great clearness of knowledge that it is our duty to do so.

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

A man's duty is to keep his end up.

Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

If I'm at the front line and refuse to treat a patient, it's considered a crime. As a physician, this is my oath. I'm going to treat everyone regardless.

As an MP, my first duty is to act in the national interest, regardless of party affiliation.

As a patron of a youth education charity it is my duty to use my platform as a voice for all, regardless of background.

Every good government's duty is to do more for the regions that are underdeveloped.

If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.