Duty Quotes

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

~ John Buchan

If they had given in to passion, throwing caution to the wind,they would have lost everything.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

If you don’t do what you love, you will never love what you do. And if you don’t love whatever you do, you are likely to be worried anytime a duty is assigned to you concerning that.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

~ Terry Goodkind

Tell the truth. It's your duty to do so. It's up to them how they take in the information. Keep it real.

~ J.r. Rim

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

~ Robin Hobb

Traditionally, there have been two major strains of motivation (or perceived motivations) in anarchist politics: Duty and Joy. Like any duality, it is easy to fall into the trap of simplistic black and white labels, ignoring the more realistic continuum of grays. Instead, think of these two motivations as the end points on a continuum, illuminating everything in between.

~ Curious George Brigade

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

~ Amit Kalantri

Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.

~ Amit Kalantri

People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.

~ Amit Kalantri

Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.

~ Nel Noddings

A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

~ Evan Meekins

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money; Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux; glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights; Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism; Fertility to Sterility; the spirit of Heroism to the spirit of Trade; the principle of Responsibility to Parliamentarism; the idea of Polarity of Man and Woman to Feminism; the idea of the individual task to the ideal of ‘happiness’; Discipline to Propaganda-compulsion; the higher unities of family, society, State to social atomism; Marriage to the Communistic ideal of free love; economic self-sufficiency to senseless trade as an end in itself; the inner imperative to Rationalism.

~ Francis Parker Yockey

If we begin to diligently care for the environment, it will greatly improve human health.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

~ John Lubbock

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

~ Jacques Monod

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

~ Gustave Flaubert

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

~ Bertrand Russell

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

~ Nikola Tesla

A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

~ John Lubbock

There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about his fate than despondent or dejected, wishes for death and yet preserves his life without loving it, not from inclination or fear but from duty, then his maxim has moral content.

~ Immanuel Kant

[M]editation is the life of of most other duties, and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

~ Richard Baxter

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.

~ Robert Schumann

I shout at him to remind him of his duties. That does not mean that I do not trust him at all.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

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

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.

~ C.s. Lewis

Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.

~ Anthony Liccione

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing more than three pebbles, or a piece of wood with a dandelion helmet, perhaps; but above all they require only the pure, strong, passionate, chaste, still-untroubled fantasy of those happy years when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us, when we are allowed to see, hear, laugh, wonder, and dream without the world's demanding anything in return, when the impatience of those whom we want so much to love has not yet begun to torment us for evidence, some early token, that we will diligently fulfill our duties. Ah, it will not be long, and all that will rain down upon us in overwhelming, raw power, will assault us, stretch us, cramp us, drill us, corrupt us.

~ Thomas Mann

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.

~ Gregory Bateson

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

~ Stieg Larsson

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

~ Naomi Novik

Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do, the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief's salvation.

~ Thomas Dubay