26 Quotes About Duty

Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give "permission" to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them. Mildred Armstrong Kalish

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better. Lailah Gifty Akita

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibilities, to be bound by the rules of that group. Robin Hobb

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

When I have fully executed this phase of my life, then I can begin a new chapter. Lailah Gifty Akita

I will wholeheartedly perform my holy duties. Lailah Gifty Akita

The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task. Lailah Gifty Akita

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean. Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

A call to duty, a call for service. Lailah Gifty Akita

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways. Robin Hobb

Duty is sinless. Amit Kalantri

We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, but official duties left him no time for such a task. He had learned to curb his own wishes. Once he remarked to one of his tutors: "It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. But I was exactly the same when I was still a student. We study and work, don't waste much time, and think we may rightly call ourselves industrious—but we are scarcely conscious of all we could do, all that we might make of our freedom. Then we suddenly receive a call from the hierarchy, we are needed, are given a teaching assignment, a mission, a post, and from then on move up to a higher one, and unexpectedly find ourselves caught in a network of duties that tightens the more we try to move inside it. All the tasks are in themselves small, but each one has to be carried out at its proper hour, and the day has far more tasks than hours. That is well; one would not want it to be different. But if we ever think, between classrooms, Archives, secretariat, consulting room, meetings, and official journeys—if we ever think of the freedom we possessed and have lost, the freedom for self-chosen tasks, for unlimited, far-flung studies, we may well feel the greatest yearning for those days, and imagine that if we ever had such freedom again we would fully enjoy its pleasures and potentialities. Hermann Hesse

At some point the choice you will face is whether to carry out your duties or live your life Cayla Kluver

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he? Patricia Highsmith

Personal Responsibility is when an individual volunteers to be in charge of duties, tasks and is ready to see to its fulfilment Sunday Adelaja

Never forsake your motherland. Lailah Gifty Akita

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Bhagavad Gita

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties Virginia Woolf

Human Rights calls for responsible behavior on the part of every individual being, and the society at large. As entwined portion of rights, duties follow, thereby it calls for performance of duties such as practicing nonviolence, solving conflicts with a dialogue, respect for the other individual or a nation, respect for human rights of other individuals etc Unknown

.Thus it can be said that ‘Human Rights’ is an ever expanding subject, which grows in leaps and bounds with the evolution of knowledge, development of the society and the advancement of the world at large, thereby encompassing within its ambit newer forms of right/s as and when recognized as an inalienable ‘right’ , along with wrapped-in duties; duties, on the part of the state, the government, the human rights organizations on one hand, and duties incumbent on individuals as responsible beings owing their allegiance to the society, the society itself , and the world at large on the other.. Henrietta Newton Martin