Quotes About Duty

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor - and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.

Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.

Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.