592 Duty Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

You People Fate Smart Duty Enough Out Putting Court Go Were Get Hands Jury Jury Duty Your Who Twelve

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. Robert Schumann

Art Darkness Light Men Duty Hearts Send Artist

Never mind your happiness; do your duty. Peter Drucker

Happiness Mind Duty Never Your

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. Davy Crockett

Patriotism Will Country Duty Ruin My Self Self Never Sacrificed Know Am Done Disgrace Politically Gain Elected Gratification Suffered Save

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.' Norman Schwarzkopf

Fight Sometimes Honor Country Young Duty Field Every Our Saw Background East East Asia Point Learned West West Point Motto Southeast Southeast Asia American Die Middle Young Americans Middle East Race Asia Rice Gallant Meaning Sands Fullest Creed

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

Dignity Maturity Matter Word Christ Church Duty Proof Priest Vow His Celibacy Personal Expression Keeping Inner

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself. Carl Jung

Young Duty Too Danger Almost Attention Sin Devote Himself Least Person Young Person Ageing Preoccupied Serious Necessity

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. Elie Wiesel

Moving On Remember Duty Despair Because Reject

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. George W. Bush

Time Leadership Character Me Listening Honor Country Duty From Time To Time Means

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Life Government Property Law First Duty State Religious Religious Beliefs Law And Order Maintain Protected Subjects Order Fully Beliefs

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

Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined. Ellen G. White

Love Alone Selfish Win Result Will Duty Soften Neglected Willful Must Similar Properly Blended Stern Headstrong Make Disciplined Without Left May Children Order While Stand Perverse

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw

Man Stupid Duty Something He Stupid Man Always Doing His Ashamed

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. George Eliot

Veterans Day Reward Power Duty Another Fulfill

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

Three Duty Worse Adequate Scarcely More Observation Employed Executed Discharge Person Done Whenever Persons Therein Found Two

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. Maxim Gorky

Life Work Joy Life Is A Duty Pleasure Slavery

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

Home Mother Soil Kiss Duty Difficult Consider Our Earthly Sublime Hands Placed Moment Homeland Difficult Moment

Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good. Pope John XXIII

Good Power First Duty Willingly Moral Must Mainly Call Contribute Person Authority Common Common Good Therefore Each Conscience

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy World Benefits Duty Anonymous Sow Being Being Happy Much

There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained. Sam Houston

Rights People Liberty Fly Men Duty Difficulty Danger Liberties Must Would Would-Be Maintained Like Texas March Defended

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. Henry Rollins

Jealous Time Good Pride Too Much Duty Sense Too Degradation Only Come Perhaps Protect Vulnerable Conclusion Ultimately Offense Improve Anything Which Much Stands Zeal Waste Waste Of Time

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. Dag Hammarskjold

Life You Duty Living Humiliated Others Only Gives Never Without Command Being Orders Your Right Receive Position

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