Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

There is nothing about our duties that necessitates like or dislike. You have your purpose and I have mine. That’s the end of the matter.

This lawsuit is about duty, this lawsuit is about accountability, this lawsuit is about responsibility.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty). In French, the word for ‘Wife’ is the same as the word for...

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every chain upon the limbs of heresy was music in the ear of God....

How does a person perform nobly in Hell?” I asked her.”You plant flowers,” she hissed. “You feed the birds, while they’re burning…

If they had given in to passion, throwing caution to the wind,they would have lost everything.

An enlightened man had but one duty – to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

A creature doesn’t move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

Most of us don’t mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn’t interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether...

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if...

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Not once or twice in our fair island-story,The path of duty was the way to glory.

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will...

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can’t affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it’s the most wonderful song the...

If you don’t do what you love, you will never love what you do. And if you don’t love whatever you do, you are likely to be worried anytime a duty is assigned to you...

The naked truth is the naked truth isn’t naked—it’s wearing see-thru clothing. My duty as a nudist is to let people see I’m transparent.

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

Uniqueness isn’t a virtue. It’s a responsibility.

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

We would love to be able to just turn it on. But there is a duty and an obligation [to give] everyone a fair chance to participate.

I didn’t grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

Trees are the earth’s example of beauty, duty, wisdom and happiness.

It’s a father’s duty to give his sons a fine chance.

We supply food and medication to our customers, and thought that duty was greater.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers

He was involved before, but he took on a whole new duty.

The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant,Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One...

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken me?We have found that man must depend on himself. He must clear the land; he must build the home; he must plow and plant; he must invent;...

My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.

A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could...

In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man’s duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside,...

A writer’s duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

He has lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swum in rivers and mended nets and learned to wash his own clothes at need. He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he...