Quotes about Duties

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's. Votes: 3

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself. Votes: 3

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures. Votes: 3

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. Votes: 3

Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions. Votes: 3

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes. Votes: 3

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. Votes: 3

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Votes: 3

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. Votes: 3

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. Votes: 2

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Votes: 2

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. Votes: 2

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. Votes: 2

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Votes: 2

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. Votes: 2

We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really. Votes: 2

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. Votes: 2

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. Votes: 2

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important. Votes: 2

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life. Votes: 2

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. Votes: 2

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. Votes: 2

I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional. Votes: 2

I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day. Votes: 2

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. Votes: 2

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. Votes: 2

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy. Votes: 2

I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style. Votes: 2

Man cannot choose his duties. Votes: 0

New occasions teach new duties. Votes: 0

Thou art relieved of thy duties! Votes: 0

Happy the man who knows his duties! Votes: 0

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. Votes: 0

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights. Votes: 0

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. Votes: 0

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. Votes: 0

Three duties of every Christian are giving, praying, and fasting. Votes: 0

Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights. Votes: 0

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. Votes: 0

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed. Votes: 0

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. Votes: 0

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. Votes: 0

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. Votes: 0

My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring. Votes: 0

Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties Votes: 0

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government. Votes: 0

The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam. Votes: 0

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties Votes: 0

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. Votes: 0

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life. Votes: 0

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties. Votes: 0

Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. Votes: 0

The family is the school of duties - founded on love. Votes: 0

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. Votes: 0

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. Votes: 0

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. Votes: 0

Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard. Votes: 0

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. Votes: 0

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. Votes: 0

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties. Votes: 0

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty. Votes: 0

From the holy scriptures, heaven-sent lift will be found for heaven-sent duties. Votes: 0

Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities... Votes: 0

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come. Votes: 0

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. Votes: 0

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities. Votes: 0

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. Votes: 0

When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors. Votes: 0

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried. Votes: 0

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. Votes: 0

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. Votes: 0

Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties. Votes: 0

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. Votes: 0

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone. Votes: 0

When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly. Votes: 0

The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation. Votes: 0

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties Votes: 0

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. Votes: 0

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. Votes: 0

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult. Votes: 0

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. Votes: 0

Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties? Votes: 0

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. Votes: 0

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have. Votes: 0

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace. Votes: 0

Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties. Votes: 0

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter Votes: 0

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. Votes: 0

Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community. Votes: 0

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either. Votes: 0

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting. Votes: 0

sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out. Votes: 0

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. Votes: 0

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. Votes: 0

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you? Votes: 0

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Votes: 0

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties Votes: 0

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. Votes: 0

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. Votes: 0

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties. Votes: 0

Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness. Votes: 0

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well. Votes: 0

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. Votes: 0

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. Votes: 0

I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months. Votes: 0

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days. Votes: 0

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. Votes: 0

The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties. Votes: 0

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. Votes: 0

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. Votes: 0

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. Votes: 0

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed. Votes: 0

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life Votes: 0

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer. Votes: 0

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. Votes: 0

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. Votes: 0

Protecting the integrity of every vote cast is among the most important duties I have as governor. Votes: 0

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. Votes: 0

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could. Votes: 0

I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos. Votes: 0

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another. Votes: 0

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore Votes: 0

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties. Votes: 0

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland Votes: 0

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet. Votes: 0

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community. Votes: 0

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else. Votes: 0

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. Votes: 0

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. Votes: 0

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever. Votes: 0

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected. Votes: 0

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. Votes: 0

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. Votes: 0

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice. Votes: 0

The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels. Votes: 0

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. Votes: 0

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties. Votes: 0

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties. Votes: 0

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority. Votes: 0

Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority. Votes: 0

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties. Votes: 0

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. Votes: 0

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties. Votes: 0

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. Votes: 0

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties. Votes: 0

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties. Votes: 0

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one. Votes: 0

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. Votes: 0

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream! Votes: 0

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul? Votes: 0

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. Votes: 0

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer. Votes: 0

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy. Votes: 0

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom. Votes: 0

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother. Votes: 0

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. Votes: 0

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. Votes: 0

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties... Votes: 0

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. Votes: 0

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend. Votes: 0

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties. Votes: 0

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed. Votes: 0

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character. Votes: 0

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights. Votes: 0

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned. Votes: 0

I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left Votes: 0

My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock. Votes: 0

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. Votes: 0

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced? Votes: 0

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy. Votes: 0

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine. Votes: 0

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. Votes: 0

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties. Votes: 0

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God. Votes: 0

I shout at him to remind him of his duties. That does not mean that I do not trust him at all. Votes: 0

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? Votes: 0

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. Votes: 0

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding. Votes: 0

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger. Votes: 0

This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell. Votes: 0

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties. Votes: 0

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. Votes: 0

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God. Votes: 0

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. Votes: 0

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. Votes: 0

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties. Votes: 0

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make. Votes: 0

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Votes: 0

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due Votes: 0

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children. Votes: 0

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory. Votes: 0

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties. Votes: 0

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others. Votes: 0

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. Votes: 0

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. Votes: 0

Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.] Votes: 0

Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos. Votes: 0

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11. Votes: 0

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties. Votes: 0

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers. Votes: 0

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible. Votes: 0

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways. Votes: 0

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency. Votes: 0

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties. Votes: 0

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos. Votes: 0

Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties. Votes: 0

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties. Votes: 0

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament. Votes: 0

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. Votes: 0

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing. Votes: 0

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. Votes: 0

I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there! Votes: 0

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest. Votes: 0

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation. Votes: 0

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. Votes: 0

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself. Votes: 0

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. Votes: 0

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties. Votes: 0

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results. Votes: 0

We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties. Votes: 0

Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. Votes: 0

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties. Votes: 0

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. Votes: 0

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither. Votes: 0

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. Votes: 0

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty. Votes: 0

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. Votes: 0

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability. Votes: 0

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even. Votes: 0

Why have we books in heaven?""Why not?" asked my brother. "What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!... Votes: 0

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct. Votes: 0

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves, and we can shrink neither. Votes: 0

The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs. Votes: 0

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven. Votes: 0

Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them. Votes: 0

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. Votes: 0

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. Votes: 0

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence. Votes: 0

Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties Votes: 0

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive. Votes: 0

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure. Votes: 0

You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely. Votes: 0

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts. Votes: 0

If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost. Votes: 0

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. Votes: 0

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties. Votes: 0

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers. Votes: 0

The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest. Votes: 0

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. Votes: 0

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. Votes: 0

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation. Votes: 0

Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last. Votes: 0

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character. Votes: 0

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. Votes: 0

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us. Votes: 0

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive. Votes: 0

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything. Votes: 0

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances. Votes: 0

I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to do it. Votes: 0

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things. Votes: 0

Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns. Votes: 0

A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes. Votes: 0

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not. Votes: 0

Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring. Votes: 0

When we carry out our religious duties we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool. Votes: 0

Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over ,this earth. Votes: 0

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures. Votes: 0

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences. Votes: 0

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. Votes: 0

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If the entire society was conscious of its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights. Since everybodys's rights would be automatically taken care of through someone else's duties. Votes: 0

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom. Votes: 0

I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat. Votes: 0

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide. Votes: 0

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. Votes: 0

My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology. Votes: 0

In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Votes: 0

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office. Votes: 0

...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious forms of statistical and field work. Votes: 0

Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment. Votes: 0

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it. Votes: 0

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation. Votes: 0

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for. Votes: 0

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing. Votes: 0

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life Votes: 0

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race. Votes: 0

The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another. Votes: 0

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism. Votes: 0

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. Votes: 0

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. Votes: 0

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism. Votes: 0

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties. Votes: 0

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations? Votes: 0

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God. Votes: 0

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct. Votes: 0

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries. Votes: 0

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all Votes: 0

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened. Votes: 0

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you. Votes: 0

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier. Votes: 0

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men. Votes: 0

Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day." Votes: 0

Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation. Votes: 0

We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties. Votes: 0

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour. Votes: 0

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country. Votes: 0

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties. Votes: 0

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel. Votes: 0

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation. Votes: 0

Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent. Votes: 0

We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality. Votes: 0

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' Votes: 0

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country. Votes: 0

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties. Votes: 0

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's. Votes: 0

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. Votes: 0

The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation. Votes: 0

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. Votes: 0

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. Votes: 0

It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities, Votes: 0

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity. Votes: 0

What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.] Votes: 0

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties. Votes: 0

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future. Votes: 0

What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Votes: 0