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Quotes About Duty

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
~ Ellen Key
There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
~ Mary Lyon
I may now carry the sash of Miss Universe, but I'll forever be your Miss Philippines.
~ Catriona Gray
To be a Miss Universe is both an honor and responsibility.
~ Pia Wurtzbach
I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.
~ Lexa Doig
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.
~ Antoine Rivarol
The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.
~ Kate Richards O'Hare
Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.
~ John McCain
As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
~ Charles B. Rangel
Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.
~ Bill Richardson
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.
~ William Blake
The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.
~ Rick Riordan
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.
~ Honore de Balzac
Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.
~ Hugh Shelton
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.
~ Jeff Bingaman
There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
~ Lisa See
The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
~ Mahatma Gandhi