Duty Quotes
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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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Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
Sebastian Junger
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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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Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.
Eugen Sandow
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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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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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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
Ben Sherwood
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Wrong no man by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Stonewall Jackson
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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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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
William Gurnall
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
Ava Gardner
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To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.
Gautama Buddha
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Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
Stephen Samuel Wise
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To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.
Joseph Story
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The first duty of life is to live.
Burt Lancaster
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I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.
Jessy White
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
Henrik Ibsen
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
Jonathan Swift
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
George Eliot
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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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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