Duty Quotes - Page 36

• If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Unbearable, Rich, Pleasure

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

  George Washington

  Promise, Important, Purity

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.159

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

  Hugh Shelton

  Jobs

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

  John Jortin

  Sunbeams, Written

  Sermon, 1751.

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• Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Freedom, Soul

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Self, Burning

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Body, Congress

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• What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

  Oscar Wilde

  Home, Land, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

  Ovid

  Granted, Pleasure, Cease

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

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• And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heaven, Littles, Hell

  "Past and Present and Chartism".

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• As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

  Romain Rolland

  Children, Lying, Men

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• When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

  Clara Zetkin

  Men, Voice, Silent

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• I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Honest, Kind, Songwriting

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• As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.

  Steven Moffat

  Aids, British, Subjects

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• I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

  Nellie Bly

  Usual, Impatient, Newspapers

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.267, Golgotha Press

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• My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

  Kajol

  Children, Giving, Needs

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• The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Government, Groups

  Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

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• He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Morning, Pain

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• To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Country, Integrity, Self

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1964). “If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature”

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• I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.189, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Important, Individual, Humans

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.35, Broadway Books

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• We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Purpose, Weapons

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

  George Orwell

  Mind, Knows, Definite

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thoughts are not subject to duty.

  Martin Luther

  Subjects

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• It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

  William McFee

  Romantic, Adventure, Vision

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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