Quotes about Duty

46 quotes about Duty

In the family must master: the love, conception will, order, consciousness of duty. Not the pleasure, but pure joy, produced by the beauty of ideal. Between God and my people

Quote by Petre Țuțea about duty

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best, it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is...

Quote by George S. Patton about duty

Duty is what we are expecting from the others.

Duty is what we are expecting from the others.

Quote by Oscar Wilde about duty

The highest duty of the man is to spare the animals from...

The highest duty of the man is to spare the animals from cruelty.

Quote by Emile Zola about duty

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

Quote by John Abizaid about duty

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about duty

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Quote by Joseph Addison about duty

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a...

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about duty

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Quote by George W. Bush about duty

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means...

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Quote by George W. Bush about duty

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and...

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about duty

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Quote by Albert Camus about duty

All the great things are simple, and many can be...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Quote by Winston Churchill about duty

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about duty

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

Quote by William Godwin about duty

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Quote by William Godwin about duty

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

Quote by William Godwin about duty

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Quote by Ava Gardner about duty

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about duty

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Quote by Frank Herbert about duty

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