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Duty Quotes
"No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities."
102
"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
Duty,
64
"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
59
"If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty."
55
"Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest."
53
"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
52
"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
Duty,
50
"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
47
"It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders."
47
"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."
46
"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."
46
"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
45
"No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty."
44
"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
44
"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."
43
"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
43
"Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions."
43
"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
43
"I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them."
41
"It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers."
41
"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
40
"And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."
40
"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
40
"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."
39
"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."
39
"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
38
"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."
37
"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
36
"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."
36
"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."
Duty,
36
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