Quotes about Duty, page 2

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about duty

You'll find the suspect you want, when you're off-duty and unarmed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about duty

Take off your hat and the MP Duty Officer shows up.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about duty

If you hold a hammer in your hand, everything around you will look like a nail.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about duty

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed God wills it.

Quote by William H. O'Connell about duty

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression, for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Quote by Thomas Paine about duty

The linking together of the spiritual and the physical makes it our duty to keep the corporeal frame in proper alignment.

Quote by Daniel D. Palmer about duty

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies rather than as your civic duty is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about duty

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Quote by Theodore Parker about duty

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about duty

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about duty

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about duty

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about duty

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Quote by Lord Acton about duty

Duty that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about duty

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Quote by George Herbert about duty

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Quote by Alexis Carrel about duty

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Quote by George Washington about duty

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Quote by Kurt Donald Cobain about duty

The ideal of my life was and remained the duty that I think was given to me at birth, by the fate fairy, for being useful on this land, to my people. I have tried to leave traces of my passing on Earth. As lasting as possible.

Quote by Ion Marin Almajan about duty