Duty Quotes

When we carry out our religious duties we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready.

~ C.s. Lewis

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

~ Lenore Kandel

He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

~ Hjalmar Söderberg

We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God’s protection.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

~ John Stuart Mill

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

~ Comte De Lautréamont

Eventually you will find something to put that energy into and you will be unstoppable. Even now with something you take no joy in, you do your task dutifuly, because it's all you can do. There's something beautiful in that, Collin.

~ Kiera Cass

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

~ Helen Keller

A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas. -Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)

~ Ted Bell

Our heroes are over there where the white crosses are. We're survivors over here. None of us are heroes. I don't think you'll talk to a man who say we are. You figure a hero is someone who does above and beyond the call of duty, and when you give your life that's as above and beyond as you can get- Earl McClung.

~ Marcus Brotherton

There is but one path of safety to the Latter-day Saints, and that is the path of duty. It is not testimony, it is not marvelous manifestations, it is not knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true, . . . it is not actually knowing that the Savior is the Redeemer, and that Joseph Smith was His prophet, that will save you and me, but it is the keeping of the commandments of God, the living the life of a Latter-day Saint. [Heber J. Grant, Improvement Era, November 1936, p. 659] Quoted in “Waiting Upon the Lord” By Henry B. Eyring, BYU Speeches, 30 Sept 1990

~ Heber J. Grant

And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion. “ The Prince, XVIII, 5

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Duty eats free will for breakfast.

~ Daryl Gregory

Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

~ Hilary Mantel

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

~ Ashim Shanker

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

~ Albert Einstein

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

~ Thomas Drummond

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

~ John Stuart Mill

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

~ Molière

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

~ Mark Burnett

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

~ Swami Sivananda

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.

~ Pratibha Patil

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

~ Lao Tzu

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

~ Niklaus Wirth

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

~ Elie Wiesel

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

~ George Washington

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

~ Peter Drucker

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

~ José Martí

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

~ Rand Paul

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

~ Tiberius

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

~ James Allen

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

~ Alan Watts

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

~ Herbert Spencer

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

~ Vincent Van Gogh