Top 606 Duty Quotes

I’m a huge ‘Call of Duty’ fan, ‘Minecraft’ and all those kinds of video games. I’m constantly playing video games every day.
Olivia Holt
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
Frances Perkins
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
Bainbridge Colby
I feel that it’s my duty to persuade more people to take part in relevant causes.
Lee Min-ho
I think it is our duty towards the people of Lebanon to stabilize the country.
Saad Hariri
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Saint Augustine
You can’t divorce religious belief and public service I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
Maria Monk
It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times in which we live.
Nina Simone
I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can’t really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it’s my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.
Joseph Fiennes
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
William Ellery Channing
It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
Howard Staunton
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tryon Edwards
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there… I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Peter Ustinov
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means – its spirit and message.
Annie Besant
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E. Gladstone
It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
Yitzhak Rabin
I’ve achieved ‘the American dream.’ I feel it’s my duty to help others achieve their vision, too – especially the youth.
Joe Frazier
When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.
Nick Hornby
Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.
Nicholas Sparks
Now a slave is not ‘held’ by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is ‘held’ only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.
Lysander Spooner
It is every one’s sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.
Orison Swett Marden
I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.
Ray Liotta
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
Margaret Cavendish
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
Henry B. Eyring
We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems.
Meena Harris
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan
If you’re in a situation where someone’s mistreating you, I think it’s your duty to speak out.
Anjelica Huston
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
Adam Clarke
The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don’t believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.
Adam Rickitt
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
Nick Cave
I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping, but they might see the most amazing outfit and think, ‘When am I going to wear that?’, so it’s my duty to exploit the fact I do have events I can wear these things to.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
If you’re going to educate the public and tell them how things happen in the courtroom, then you really owe them the duty to do it right. Don’t misinform.
Marcia Clark
Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can’t resist because all the great themes of human life – duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy – you find all those things within families.
Khaled Hosseini
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
John Dalberg-Acton
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
William Weld
I love ‘Call of Duty;’ I’m a huge fan, but I started off with ‘Medal of Honor’ and I stuck with what I knew. I never got into the online play with people, across the world, across the country.
Mehcad Brooks
Vanity is not having facelifts if you’re ugly. Those people who say: ‘Oh, I’d never dream of having anything done!’ That’s rude. It’s rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent… or just invent… it’s one’s duty to not get stuffy.
Nicholas Haslam
Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.
Roger B. Taney
It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West
He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.
James Hogg
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
George Whitefield
Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.
Ken Watanabe
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.
Lao Tzu
As Christians, it’s our duty to stand up for what we believe – that’s called testifying.
Johnny Van Zant
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael
At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
Edgar Mitchell
Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it’s so little known about it which surprised me.
Moustapha Akkad
I feel it’s my duty, my job, now to allow people to hear the dance to different genres of music, to ensure audiences have the chance to listen to tap dancing up against all these other styles.
Savion Glover
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father’s responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
J. G. Ballard
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold