Duty Calls Quotes

#1. When duty calls, that is when character counts.

William Safire

#2. He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

William Godwin

#3. It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

James Larkin

#5. The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Agatha Christie

#7. You are constantly battling against your own weaknesses to make a good performence.

Eric Cantona

#8. When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

Dennis Rodman

#9. A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.

Mario Puzo

#10. Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will
my soul do thy lord?
Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.
Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

Christopher Marlowe

#11. How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.

Jackie Kay

#12. Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Thomas Gray

#13. God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience ... whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed ... It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

George Hodges

#14. JACK
Your duty as a gentleman calls you back.
ALGERNON
My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Oscar Wilde

#15. You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!

Rumi

#16. 'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then calls it back. It is a simple one, but it gives me goosebumps every time.

Jorge Hernandez

#17. Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

Philip Sidney

#18. My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.

Gordon Dalbey

#19. For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Martin Van Buren

#20. It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#21. That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

Maureen Forrester

#22. Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.

Tori Amos

#23. There's a general hate in the hearts of men. You went to war, Gil, you should know that better than anyone. It's like the heat of the sun. Men like Kaad are just the focal figures, like lenses to gather the sun's rays on kindling. You can smash a lens, but that won't put out the sun.

Richard K. Morgan

#24. The voice of love calls to you, my son.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#25. Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life? Or am I the only one for whom it is a duty?

Yukio Mishima