Quotes About Duties

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.

As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

Podría decirse que el sistema de defensa de nuestra patria adolece de serios defectos. Hasta el momento no nos hemos ocupado de ellos sino de nuestros deberes cotidianos; pero algunos acontecimientos recientes nos inquietan.

We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.

boldly summed up in a 1998 Southern Baptist resolution. "We implore our government leaders to live by the highest standards of morality both in their private actions and in their public duties," it read, "and thereby serve as models of moral excellence and character."5

she assumed the charge of their education, and performed the duties of an instructress as none, save a mother, is capable of.

Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.

If I regard my intention, gratitude, for a life preserved by you, and for a sense of my social duties (soul as well as body indebted to you, tho' a Protestant yourself) will not suffer it. Is there then nobody whom we can blame for the calamity befallen us? — How strangely is that calamity circumstanced! But is there so irreconcileable a difference between the two religious?

Here was the court, back to "only." And here was Americans' right to integrity back to mere money. Only if an official had taken dollars and cents—and only if she had done so by means of one of two narrowly defined crimes—had she violated anyone's right to her good faith in performing her duties.

The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

A world without love is a world governed by rigid contracts and inexorable duties, a world in which – God forbid! – the lawyers run everything. The mark of really loving someone or something is unconditionality and excess, engagement and commitment, fire and passion.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

Third, as Brian Davies has emphasized, much discussion of the problem of evil seems to presuppose that God is a kind of moral agent who has certain duties which (so it is alleged) he has failed to live up to. But this way of thinking simply makes no sense given Aquinas's conception of God.

Peace, perfect peace, by thronging duties pressed? To do the will of Jesus, this is rest.

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!

All or certain human rights, and such others, become restricted and invalid whenever the duties and discipline of institutions overrule and prevail.

Wearing the uniform neither demonstrates patriotism nor having the right of superiority over others; whereas, besides that, it describes more responsibilities for categorical and professional duties than others, which is constituted by the elected members of the state. The fulfillment of protection and respect of all organs of the state establishes patriotism according to the constitution.

Politics is the participation of the citizen in his government. The kind of government he has depends entirely on the quality of that participation. Therefore, every single one of us must learn, as early as possible, to understand and accept our duties as a citizen.

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.