First Duty Of A Man Quotes

#1. The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Jose Marti

#2. The first duty of a man is to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#3. The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of you.

Debasish Mridha

#4. The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#6. First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God. Even if there were a devil, it would be our duty to remember God always, and not the devil.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

William Shakespeare

#8. It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton

#10. The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

Ayn Rand

#11. What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Henrik Ibsen

#12. The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

Fritz Kreisler

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

Mario Puzo

#14. The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

William Godwin

#16. Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

Agatha Christie

#17. I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

Gretchen Rubin

#18. The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

Arthur Symons

#19. There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

Big Sean

#20. The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

Thomas Carlyle

#21. A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Mark Twain

#22. Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#23. The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24. The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle

#25. In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero. - The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 183

John C. Wright

#26. If ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it's your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself - that will be the man who's not after your soul.

Ayn Rand

#27. 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

#28. Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

Herman Melville

#29. It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

Michael Swanwick

#30. Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Samuel Adams

#31. A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. ... Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#32. Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

Rick Perlstein