When Duty Calls Quotes

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

William Safire

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

Philip Sidney

#3. The truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

#4. She'd been hired to protect him. But he'd come to a place where he'd do anything, give anything, risk anything to protect her.

Becky Wade

#5. We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#6. 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

#7. My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.

Scott Patterson

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

Mario Puzo

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. '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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

Robert Breault

#18. 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

#19. Rubbing noses with me, she laughed, and I swear the Elysian night sang with the sound of it.

Jovee Winters

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

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#21. 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

#22. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

Jeff Bezos