Top 1200 Civic Duty Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

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

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

On a societal level, what happens to community when people don't have time to gather or connect, in person, not just over social media? Not having time off becomes a public-interest issue. It means the erosion of social bonds, less civic contribution and participation. Loneliness is on the rise in North America; we find ourselves too busy for true connection, prioritizing work over life.

If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.

No one was more surprised than me by the success of the first series of 'Line of Duty.'

I don't think it's my duty to dismiss rumours which other people invent.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty.

Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.

Despite its heightened duty, at times the SEC has been inattentive to economic analysis.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

It is my right and my duty as a politician to speak about the problems in our country.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

Not every woman has what I have, so if I could do something to help them, that should also be my duty.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.

If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!

I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

I felt like it was a sense of duty for me to give these women a voice.

As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time.

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.