Duty Quotes

The sense of duty or responsibility is something that should be taught to a child at a young age. Teaching children responsibilities will make a world full of adults who care more about the world around themselves and are ready to take up responsibilities and make our society a better living place. Teaching responsibilities to students will help them to become self motivated, take responsibilities for their actions, and become constructive members of the societies. Read these inspiring duty quotes for a better insight on the subject.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
Security Nation
Steve King

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I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.
Chloe Grace Moretz

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I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
Marriage
Princess Margaret

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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Corruption Youth
Kurt Cobain

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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Enemies Truth
Stephen King

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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
Life
Marlon Brando

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Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Future
Andrew Carnegie

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I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.
People
Ilhan Omar

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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Love Religion Affection Belief
Thomas Paine

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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Wish Fathers
Laurence Sterne

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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
People Government
Ronald Reagan

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I think the first duty of society is justice.
Society Justice
Alexander Hamilton

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As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
Christianity Religion Attitude Dishonest
Adolf Hitler

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It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Meaningful Accountability Compassion Reality
Dalai Lama

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Architecture
John Ruskin

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Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out.
Brexit
Keir Starmer

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We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.
Truthfulness Faithfulness Children
Pranab Mukherjee

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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Meaningful Motivation Accountability Responsibility
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Advice People Reason Socialism
Thomas Mann

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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Right Opportunities Responsibility
John D. Rockefeller

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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Hopelessness
Elie Wiesel

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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman

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I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.
Life
Kelsey Grammer

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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Light
Douglas MacArthur

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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Responsibility Country Heroism Jobs
David Lloyd George

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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Quality Growth
Bruce Lee

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Guts Purpose Responsibility Self Confidence
Walter Scott

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We have a duty as the state to protect our economy... We are for the protection of intellectual property.
Angela Merkel

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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Friendship Adversity Wives
Chanakya

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But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you have, it... I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it's your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know?
World
Tim Curry

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The fascination about being a judge is the same about the duty of being a judge, and that is to ask yourself, Why am I about to rule the way I am about to rule? You must always ask yourself that question.
Anthony Kennedy

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Country
Andrew Jackson

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The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
Government
Donald Trump

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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Country Words Honor
Douglas MacArthur

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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Accountability Comparisons Responsibility Desire
Charles Kingsley

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I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech - just a little straight talk among friends.
Gerald R. Ford

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Greatness
Helen Keller

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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington

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We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.
Society Justice
Sonia Sotomayor

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I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.
Chloe Grace Moretz

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I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.
People Stars
Cher

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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Safety Government
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Happiness
George Washington

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Necessity Power Wickedness
Simone Weil

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Good Character Good Fortune
James Russell Lowell

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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Aristotle

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Happiness Mind
Peter Drucker

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We all have the duty to do good.
Good
Pope Francis

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Praise
Saint Augustine

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Family Love Children Marriage
George Eliot

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We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Life
Ronald Reagan

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I saw this cool interview with Amy Adams from when she did 'Enchanted' and played a princess, and when kids came up to her with no make-up and ripped jeans on, she said, 'I'm off duty. I'm an off-duty princess', and I thought that was quite sweet.
Cool Sweet
Lily James

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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Patriotism
Dave Barry

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If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.
Anjelica Huston

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Opinion Faith Painting
Vincent Van Gogh

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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
Hugh Jackman

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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Solitude Sadness
Washington Irving

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Up until 'WWE 2K15' came out, I was primarily a 'Call of Duty' guy. So a lot of 'Call of Duty'and also a little bit of 'Destiny' as well. But I've always been a big fan of the COD franchise.
Roman Reigns

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Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
Liam Neeson

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

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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
Truthfulness
Joseph Conrad

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Safety and security are the most basic job of government. I understand that - both as a mayor who works every day to secure public safety and reduce crime, and also as someone who deployed in uniform to Afghanistan because I believed joining the military was part of my duty to help keep my country safe.
Country Government
Pete Buttigieg

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This is our job as leaders: to offer positive solutions and empower people. Our duty is to tackle our problems before they tackle us.
People Positivity Problems
Paul Ryan

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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Right Faith
Abraham Lincoln

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

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Wickedness Good
Mahatma Gandhi

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I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
Knowledge
Charlie Sheen

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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
Business Government
Andrew Jackson

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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Greatness Knowledge Love
Lao Tzu

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It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.
Best People
Michael Jordan

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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

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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.
Nature Respect
John Stuart Mill

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In the absence of honesty from the Conservative party leadership, it is Labour's duty to spell out the very real consequences of a no-deal Brexit. It is also our duty to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it.
Integrity
Keir Starmer

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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.
Courage
Joseph Addison

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I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
Shakira

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

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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Power
George Eliot

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I would reject wholeheartedly any notion of a Labour Party that is not committed to returning to power at the first opportunity. Of course that needs to be principled power. But standing on the sidelines looking for the purest ideology is a dereliction of the duty for any Labour member.
Opportunities Power
Keir Starmer

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For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
Carl Jung

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I feel it is my duty to take every single opportunity I get to advocate for peace, no matter the circumstances of those meetings.
Opportunities Peace
Tulsi Gabbard

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I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
Future Light
Elon Musk

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
World
Robert Louis Stevenson

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A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
Future People Children
Alice Walker

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I think I'm basically a liberal Conservative - I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we're going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.
Business
Boris Johnson

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I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
Good
Martin Scorsese

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

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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
People
George Eliot

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Stupidity
George Bernard Shaw

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I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.
Country Wars
Jane Fonda

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.
Sadness Things Nation
James Comey

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The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.
Respect
Pope Francis

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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.
Nature
Lao Tzu

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Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.
People
Boris Johnson

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Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.
Support Nation
Paul Ryan

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

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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
Right
Camille Paglia

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Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
Law
Robert Kennedy

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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin

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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Work People Wish
Bertrand Russell

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