Duty quotes

Explore a treasure trove of profound quotes on Duty and its significance in our lives. Reflect on moral obligations, responsibility, and the sacrifices we make for a better world. Gain wisdom and inspiration from renowned thinkers and discover the power of fulfilling our duties with integrity and honor.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

- Martin Scorsese

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

- Barbara Boxer

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

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

- Thomas Kempis

I think the first duty of society is justice.

- Alexander Hamilton

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

- Ann Landers

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

- William Styron

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

- David Brin

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

- George Washington

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

- Thomas F. Meagher

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

- A. C. Benson

Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.

- Bernhard von Bulow

Consult duty not events.

- Walter Savage Landor

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

- Tiberius

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

- Mary Oliver

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

- Andrew Jackson

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

- Jeff Miller

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

- Herbert Bayard Swope

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

- Gustav Krupp

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

- Norm Crosby