Duty Quotes
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Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Norm Crosby
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It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.
Edith Pattou
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The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.
Paul Gauguin
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The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.
Adolf Hitler
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The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.
William Jennings Bryan
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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
Stieg Larsson
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.
Nicholas Haslam
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Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.
Mother Teresa
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We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.
William Wilberforce
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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
William Gurnall
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We grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.
Elena Ferrante
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Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.
William Wordsworth
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Alexis Carrel
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From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.
Michael Hintze
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A fiduciary duty to one's brothers is not something that need bind the hand of any man if he can satisfy the Court on the balance of probabilities that, through his actions, he would get some.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
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The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community
Tony Blair
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
George Washington
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Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
Stephen Samuel Wise
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
John Lewis
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To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.
Gary Taubes
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Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.
Jerry Bridges