duty quotes

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

— Paul Tillich

“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.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

— Winston Churchill

“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”

— Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.”

— Albert Einstein

“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.”

— Bruce Lee

“Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”

— Buddha

“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. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.”

— Moliere

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.”

— Victor Hugo

“Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.”

— George Washington Bush

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. ”

— Kurt Cobain

“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.”

— Helen Keller

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”

— Stephen King

“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.”

— Barack Obama

“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.”

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Thomas Paine

“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.”

— Pope John Paul II

“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

“We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.”

— James Dean