Top 1200 Civic Duty Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

There is a sense of civic connection to the city when you light up iconic buildings or sites.

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.

The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty.

Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

As an internationalist, I feel that it is simply my duty to fight for Borneo, as it is my duty to fight for Afghanistan or for Venezuela. If someone is ready to support my work and my struggle, I'll be grateful. If no one will, I'll do it on my own, somehow! Attempts to destroy our planet do not wait. Why should I?

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

It's not Neom's duty to create jobs for Saudis. Neom's duty is to be a world hub for everyone in the whole world.

We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

We need to encourage young women to run for office and become civic leaders in their own communities.

I didn't quite agree with the Supreme Court ruling that forced civic clubs to take women.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.

Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Labour is the party of the NHS and the environment and fighting for better workplace and civic rights for working men and women.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.

Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.

We've got to change the culture of riding the T. It is a civic space for community conversations, but everyone's always really quiet on there.