Quotes About Duty

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

My father would always say Kashmiris have made so much sacrifice to achieve something more, but we have a constitution, special status and a flag, and our foremost duty is to protect what we have.

The Five Eyes nations have a duty to support Hong Kong and its status as guaranteed by the 1984 agreement.

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

Our job as elected officials is to make sure those who have stepped up to defend our country have the resources they need to do their job.

When you are stepping on the field as a hockey player you are part of a dream and being a team member you have your responsibilities, you have your duties.

In the absence of honesty from the Conservative party leadership, it is Labour's duty to spell out the very real consequences of a no-deal Brexit. It is also our duty to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it.

So, he continued, if the government controls the established church, then the church ultimately must answer to the people. Thus, he concludes, the people "have the power to governe the Church, to see her do her duty, & to correct her, to redress, reform, establish, & c.

The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

We must do our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government

The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Whensoever hostile aggressions… require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Lucifer's last words in heaven may have been "Non serviam," but none has served the Almighty so dutifully, since His sideshow in the clouds would never draw any customers if it were not for the main attraction of the devil's hell on earth.

As long as we deny a person or group the claim to be as right and as real as we are, so long may we hold this dreamlike claim for ourselves alone. And it is the duty of everyone to inculcate a sense of nothingness, an ache of being empty of substance and value, in those who are not emulations of them.

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.