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Quotes About Duty

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
~ Mo Yan
Agissez comme si votre mort était pour demain, mais accomplissez vos devoirs comme si vous deviez vivre l'éternité.
~ Mohammed Dib
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
~ Unknown
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
~ Unknown
nadie tiene el poder suficiente para hacer lo que se sabe que hay que hacer.
~ Moisés Naím
We live in a universe of codes that we sometimes follow and sometimes do not. And we allow others to direct our behavior through their invocation of such codes. That channel of power does not employ coercion; instead, it activates our sense of moral duty. Perhaps the best example is the Ten Commandments: through them, a higher and unquestioned power unequivocally
~ Moisés Naím
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
~ Moliere
Femeile frumoase au datoria de a ne scoate din min?i.
~ Moliere
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
~ Moliere
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
~ Moliere
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
~ Moliere
In the winter months he was shooting or hunting, and in the spring there was salmon fishing – all undertaken and excelled in more as a career and a duty than as the pleasures of a leisured life. In the summer months there was a horse, sometimes horses, to be got ready for the Dublin Show, often evening fishing, and always the supervision of haymaking and harvest with their attendant ghastly weather to worry him. So luncheon
~ Unknown
warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great reward.
~ Morris Cerullo
In future, every time I was tempted to sit back and ask God to solve my problems, I'd be able to roll up my sleeve and be reminded of what I'd learned at the zoo. That God gave us heaven and earth and loving hearts, and the rest is up to us.
~ Morris Gleitzman
Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
~ Moustapha Akkad
I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
~ Unknown
Seek to perform your duties to your highest ability, this way your actions will be blameless.
~ Unknown
This regularity and balance of nature inspired the population to adopt a culture of order and duty based on cosmic order: Maat. This idea extends to the understanding of Divine justice and reciprocity. So if work is performed on time and in cooperation with nature, there will be order, balance and peace as well as prosperity in life.
~ Unknown
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.
~ Unknown
Be like the bravest soldiers in the battlefield, those who never leave their posts assigned by the general.
~ Unknown