The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
Let everyone regulate his conduct . . . by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
William Wilberforce
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain
...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
Woodrow Wilson
We only know of one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
William R. Alger
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An off-duty officer should be able to carry weapons anywhere. We're an asset to public safety.
James Duffy
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert Einstein
It is the duty of all those who value the Constitution to state that no one, not even a president, is above the law.
Arsalan Iftikhar
I started my career on General Duty in Fort St. John.
Tim Schewe
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
Benjamin Cardozo
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
George Carlin
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
James A. Froude
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Duty is ours, results are God's.
John Quincy Adams
He flagged down the Miami Beach officer on duty there, and the officer was able to apprehend the subject.
Bobby Hernandez
The anti-dumping duty of 56.2 per cent will put an end to exports from that Chinese enterprise to Europe.
Sun Huaibin
Almost from the moment she was born, she has done her duty without flinching and without complaint. That's one reason there is deep and abiding affection for her.
Robert Lacey
We will continue to c in the US Congress to get duty free access of Bangladeshi garments into the US markets.
Annisul Huq
It is my duty to come to Nepal during elections. I will help create an atmosphere for polls.
Manisha Koirala
He had a sense of duty right from the get-go.
Dan Gilligan
People of faith and conscience will continue . . . because that is the nature of our faith and our moral duty.
Stuart Taylor
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Teilhard De Chardin
Our duty is now...for the future.
Rick Colby
They will be charged with misconduct and dereliction of duty.
Haz Iwendi
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Aneurin Bevan
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
There are some employee who will go above and beyond the call of duty. Mr. John was one of them.
Cynthia Green
There is a lot more detail now around our expectations. This lays out clearly that entertainment should not interfere with duty to the customer.
Mary Schapiro
If there is one important duty it is to yourself.
Andrew Ridings
Duty: A Father, His Son and the Man Who Won the War.
Bob Greene
I felt I had a duty to warn the prosecutor.
Robert Mclaughlin
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
William Styron
He probably could have gotten out of going just because he has a newborn son. But he said, 'No, I have a job to do, I have a duty to do for my country'.
Paul Montgomery
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
Anyone who were found guilty of dereliction of duty will be harshly dealt with.
Li Yizhong
There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.
Henry Silverman
We are monitoring. That's our duty.
Generoso Senga
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Lord Melbourne
When you don't have to pull double duty, it frees you up, and that does allow (Clem) to play her game.
Michelle Salomon
Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction.
Bhagavad Gita
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman
It's your duty when any witness testifies to decide if they're credible.
John Pecchia
Our duty was to assist anyone in need.
John Rhodes
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
Anton Chekhov
We feel that it's an important duty.
Linda Jorgenson
Our Muslim brothers from Dagestan have asked us for help, and it is our duty to help them.
Shamil Basayev
They give them to someone who has done something inspirational and beyond the call of duty.
Farah Ahmedi
This lawsuit is about duty, this lawsuit is about accountability, this lawsuit is about responsibility.
Geoffrey Fieger
The town board shirked its duty.
Patricia Myers
Duty is ours; consequences are God's.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy De Maupassant
I believe it is our greatest duty to bring about a situation where the Cabinet cannot submit the bill.
Takeo Hiranuma
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
Philip Pullman
It was call of duty.
Jason Jacobs
The duty of the new pope will be to introduce the church into the third millennium.
Stefan Wyszynski
These are dedicated doctors, who take care of very sick patients. It's a doctor's duty to care. Care in the field doesn't change.
Girish Tyagi
We want the athletes to be fit all time than when called upon they just go for national duty.
Namayo Mawerere
I have come back to my country. It is my duty, ... I am not scared. I am concerned for the safety of my followers.
Sam Rainsy
I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol, ... But we need the tax money.
Walter Allen
Who escapes duty, avoids a gain.
Theodore Parker
The numbers have gone up marginally. But we have a lot more individuals on active duty.
Lt. Col. Pamela Hart
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
If this bill passes... as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Josiah Quincy
She will now go for the $5 million Duty Free, that's been the plan all along.
Mike De Kock
We would be able to use federal money to pay our staff, which is on duty 24 hours a day.
Marcy Anderson
We have a duty to prevent the consequences of assault.
Jillian Garza
We have a duty to get back in the Olympics.
Aldo Notari
We must educate these kids, and it is our duty as a nation to do so.
William Evans
These brokers were duty-bound to keep information about large customer orders confidential and to use it to benefit the customer.
Mark Schonfeld
I'm just glad that all the boys came back fit and well from Ireland duty.
Mark Mccall
She takes her duty very seriously. She's an advocate.
Bev Schryver
It should be the damned duty of a friendly nation to inform their partner.
Rudolf Scharping
Policeman's duty is no joke.
John Leech
We are part of the community of Europe and we must do our duty as such.
Lord Salisbury
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
William Gurnall
Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
David O. Mckay
We all have a civic duty, but money seems to motivate some people.
Chris Palmer
She's an incessantly hard worker who goes way beyond the call of duty.
Maureen Thompson
I get paid $50,000 a year, but I've taken in anywhere from $80,000 to $90,000 because I'm on duty all the time.
Joseph Frank
I think that's absolutely fair game. Why is he intoxicated if he's on duty?
Howard Bass
The day he was supposed to report to college, he reported to duty instead.
Peggy Smith
It's a collateral duty. These guys don't just fly. They do other stuff.
Patrick Nichols
I feel it's my duty as a student [to experience other cultures].
Sargent College
This was a case where force was used above and beyond the call of duty.
Jerry Mondesire
Anytime somebody wants to sell an adult product, they're going to get a lot of complaints, ... It's our duty to comply.
Mark White
She didn't do any of it out of a sense duty. She did it with joy.
Helen Sonner
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
Joseph F. Newton
Their dedication and devotion to duty has been, to say the least, epic.
Philip Teel
He should have had a seamless transition from active duty to the VA. There was a disconnect. The VA should have been aware of his case and awarded him a disability. It shouldn't have happened until a decision was made.
Steve Robertson
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
Clarence B. Kelland
We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
John Randolph
If that lawyer believes that this DA engaged in this conduct then she has a duty to report it.
John Gleason
Mike said he was already thinking of going on active duty, but after 9/11, he felt that he had to do it.
Judy Taylor
Duty measures the distance between the animal and the divine.
R. Scott Bakker
In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
Omar Bongo
Faithful, below, he did his duty; / But now he's gone aloft.
Charles Dibdin
They lost everything and they're still on-duty, still working.
Joey Rollins
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine
I intended to do my duty. Not murder.
Jack Kevorkian
They did their duty, and got screwed -- the government didn't treat them very well.
John Rowan
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Ann Oakley
That's my duty as a foster parent. And I can tell you, we won't foster again.
Elizabeth Fein
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