Top 100 Quotes About Duties
#1. The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.
Mason Cooley
#2. Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?
Patricia Highsmith
#3. I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#4. Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.
Charles Hodge
#5. We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.
Frei Otto
#6. Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#7. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.
Robin Hobb
#8. The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.
Samuel Johnson
#9. An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity
the endless flow of life and death
than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.
Eric Hoffer
#10. The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Denis Diderot
#11. The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#12. Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms are like duties paid in advance on a future succession of sorrows.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#13. I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
Ken Livingstone
#14. Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
Seneca The Younger
#15. What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
Voltaire
#17. Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson
#18. Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community.
Max Anders
#19. It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
Alfred North Whitehead
#20. And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
Boris Pasternak
#21. In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#23. The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. A monarchical or aristocratic system is not immoral, if the rights and duties of persons and classes are in equilibrium, although the rights and duties of different persons and classes are unequal. An
William Graham Sumner
#25. What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
Immanuel Kant
#26. Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.
John Flavel
#27. She won't know how to fulfill the duties of a noblewoman.'
'She is quite bright. And one could find no fault with her manners. She has received a gentle education. I am certain she will make an excellent countess.' Robert's expression softened. 'Her very nature will bring honor to our name.
Julia Quinn
#28. When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.
Jentezen Franklin
#30. Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.
John C. Calhoun
#31. Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.
Pope Leo XIII
#32. The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.
Theodore Roosevelt
#33. As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
Robin Hobb
#34. Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.
Edwin Newman
#35. Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne
#36. Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Millard Fillmore
#37. One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.
Sharon Olds
#38. We aren't really motivated by abstract ideas or pushed by rules and duties. Instead some panoramic tableau of what looks like flourishing has an alluring power that attracts
James K.A. Smith
#39. Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#40. I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.
J. M. W. Turner
#41. True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.
Seneca.
#42. If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, ... and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#43. There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties
John Muir
#44. With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.
Vincent De Paul
#45. I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours.
Jane Austen
#46. Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.
Wafa Sultan
#47. The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
Thomas Jefferson
#48. Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.
Erwin Rommel
#49. What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our
John Henry Newman
#50. You know I have duties--we both have duties--before which feeling must be sacrificed.
George Eliot
#51. The countess in turn, without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. At
Leo Tolstoy
#52. It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani
#53. If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.
William S. Burroughs
#54. I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!
John Flavel
#55. Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.
Vince Lombardi
#56. A woman's life, always changing, accommodating, then shedding, old duties for new; one person's expectations for another until finally, victoriously, emerging stronger. Complete.
Melanie Benjamin
#57. Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.
Mary Slessor
#58. If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties ... and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks ...
James Alan Gardner
#59. Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.
Tanith Lee
#60. Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.
George W. Bush
#61. I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come
Steve Jobs
#62. The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes
the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.
Thomas Jefferson
#63. For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
Thomas Merton
#64. I'm a special agent with the United States Secret Service." "You mean those guys who guard the president?" "That's only one of our duties.
Blake Crouch
#65. Supposing a man not only deserves nothing good from you, but he has also provoked you with injustices and injuries - even this is not just cause for you to stop embracing him with affection and fulfilling your duties of love to him. He
John Calvin
#66. One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
#67. I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.
Hugh Shelton
#68. To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!
Lord Byron
#69. The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges Bernanos
#70. The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless,
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
William Wordsworth
#71. An assortment of soldiers and servants hurried about, finishing their duties for the day, or beginning their duties for the night, or possibly just looking busy to avoid being given additional duties.
Jonathan Renshaw
#72. Everyone's an equal shareholder. Birth shares are inalienable, and death duties are unavoidable. The estate tax is one hundred per cent. In between, you can buy and sell and earn as much as you like.
Ken MacLeod
#73. What are your duties?" said Vimes. "To Serve The Public Trust, Protect The Innocent, And Seriously Prod Buttock, Sir," said Dorfl.
Terry Pratchett
#74. One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
Norbert Wiener
#75. The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley
#76. If I confuse my ministerial duties with time spent alone with God, I can draw just enough spiritual nutrients from my job to make it through another day but not enough to sustain a life infused with the power and presence of Jesus.
Dave Jacobs
#77. It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#78. Win likewise lifted his visor, gaze steady in return. 'My unofficial duties are another story. Real unofficial. I'd have a record that would make your father's look like docking violations if I ever got caught.
Marcha A. Fox
#79. Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
Helena Bonham Carter
#80. Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more heavily, it is a moral wrong, for she must either neglect her family, or her profession.
Harriet Hosmer
#81. Increasingly being used for routine duties such as conducting liquor inspections and serving warrants.
Anonymous
#82. Allow me to fulfill my duties without having to suffer through trivial attempts at conversation and we will get along well enough.
Elizabeth Carlton
#83. On the inside I would still be little Lark, brittle bones and sharp feelings, certain that I would never be able to fulfill the duties before me.
Amy Harmon
#85. And since I'm marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you're sleeping with Laurel - "
"I'm not sleeping with Laurel. We're dating."
"Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs."
"For a while. Minus the singing.
Nora Roberts
#86. But their discovery of the void brings with it new implications: not only that they must continue on in their actions and diligence, no longer considered as duties but as gratuitous, senseless routines, but also the exhilarating realization that all is nothing but a game.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#87. Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
Nigel Farage
#88. Girls are not only being denied access to scientific and adventurous toys, they're also presented with such a narrow range of options that domesticity and stereotypically "female" duties are shoved down their throats before they've even reached the age of five.
Laura Bates
#89. The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
Ambrose Bierce
#90. There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.
Jessica Fortunato
#91. [M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).
Richard Baxter
#92. Sloth is the great enemy
the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.
Patanjali
#93. A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#94. Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
Charles Babbage
#96. Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Evan Bayh
#98. Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.
James Howard Kunstler
#99. Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#100. In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.
J.M. Coetzee
