Quotes of: Dutiful Keyword

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

Kim Jong Il

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

Leon Panetta

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

Saint Augustine

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Norman Douglas

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.

Angeles Mastretta

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.

Pope John Paul II

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

William Wilberforce

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

William H. O'Connell

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.

Andrew Johnson

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

James Harvey Robinson

Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

Mike Royko

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

Samuel Johnson

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

Charles Inglis

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.

Charles Inglis