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Quotes About Duty

Journalists undoubtedly have a duty to push, cajole, and aggressively maneuver around campaign handlers in order for the public to see a candidate unscripted.
~ Richard Grenell
We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.
~ Gordon Brown
I approach every role with the same commitment because I'm being paid for it. To not do so would be unethical.
~ Anupam Kher
In the Army, I grew up with this view that you're asked to do anything that is illegal or immoral or unethical, then that would be the point at which you have to consider resignation, and you'd be willing to do that.
~ Mark Esper
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.
~ Nellie Bly
I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.
~ Curtis Sliwa
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.
~ Lyman Abbott
Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?
~ Confucius, Gespräche
Peace is a butterfly Flying flower to flowerWith a song in her heartBut a great love for the beautyWith a great purpose and duty.
~ Debasish Mridha
It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.
~ Idries Shah, Observations
You should assume the mantle of your birthright.
~ Compton Gage
Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
The first duty of any Christian is to know God and the wisdom of His Word to the utmost
~ Sunday Adelaja
Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
f you are too good to look after God's trash, you are not good enough to look after God's treasure.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)
~ John F. MacArthur Jr.
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.
~ Idries Shah
Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.
~ Mary Edwards Walker
Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well.
~ Mark Pryor
Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that's my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
~ King Edward VIII
It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.
~ Eliza R. Snow
Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.
~ J. M. Coetzee