Top 1200 Devotion To Duty Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.

Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.

Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

I did my duty as an American citizen and Army officer.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

I've always held a pretty strong civic duty.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

Devotion has its own strange ways. It is not something rational, logical, something that can be explained to you. But it is something, if you go on growing from a student into a disciple, from a disciple into a devotee, and you come so close to the master that there is no distinction at all.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

I joined politics at the behest of my seniors and considered it my duty to do so.

True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice .

I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty and to the Constitution which is its palladium [protection], ... a Government which watches over ... the equal interdict [prohibition] against encroachments and compacts between religion and the state.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I've played overshadow the comedic stints that I've had. 'Darjeeling Limited' is a comedy; The 'Brothers Bloom' is a comedy.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story or another, or at least sketch out my characters, and research various issues related to my characters' dilemmas.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

I don't really put on makeup when I'm on mom duty at home.

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.