Quotes About Duty

The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

We should see our calling as our life's major assignment

Life was given to us for an assignment

Work is a means to fulfill your heavenly mandate

Every service is a product of double honor

Work is an instrument through which you carry out your life mandate

To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.

Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight hours a day, true responsibility?

You are called to do a certain work – do it

Sometimes criminals work and for cops and criminals have favourite cops... (Person of Interest)

I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

An attorney general's duty is to render her opinion and honest advice; she cannot set herself up as a judge overruling the president's decision. The president need not 'convince' his subordinate that his decision reflects the best view of the law.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.