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Duty Quotes (page 6)

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge. Bernard Sanders
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest. Thomas Keneally
If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars. Nina Bawden
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. Edmund Barton
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. King Albert II
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt. Ayn Rand
George Carlin quote: "I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the..."
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. George Carlin
She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to know it–they seemed to be going through the motions of some enormous pretense, acting out a ritual to ward off reality, letting the earth remain unseen and their lives unlived, in dread of something namelessly forbidden–yet the forbidden was the simple act of looking at the nature of their pain and questioning their duty to bear it. Ayn Rand
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all. J. R. R. Tolkien
Elizabeth Gaskell quote: "She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret..."
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty. Elizabeth Gaskell
Jane Austen quote: "Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour..."
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? Jane Austen
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962 Flannery O'Connor
Simon Cameron: “I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the rugged hill of life’s success—but he died bravely in the discharge of his duty. Doris Kearns Goodwin
Emily Bronte quote: "If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to..."
If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it. Emily Bronte
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. George R. R. Martin

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