Duty Quotes
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These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.
Stevie Smith
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The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.
Ashraf Dehghani
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The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.
Adolf Hitler
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I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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As Christians, it's our duty to stand up for what we believe - that's called testifying.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
Jasper Fforde
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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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As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.
Tulsi Gabbard
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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
Michael Morpurgo
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
Thomas Carlyle
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Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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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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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
Seneca the Younger
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
