Quotes of: Duty Keyword

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

A Woman of No Importance

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

Hugh Shelton

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Robert Duvall

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

Richard Flanagan

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.

Steve Jones

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

Samantha Morton

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Kate DiCamillo

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

Liam Neeson

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Mortimer Adler

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

Saint Augustine

Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Seamus Heaney

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

Zell Miller

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Horatio Nelson

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

Arthur Capper

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

Mark Burnett

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Marquis de Lafayette

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

Simon Cowell

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Theresa May

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer