Duty Quotes
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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.
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It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.
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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.
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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.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.
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The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
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As Christians, it's our duty to stand up for what we believe - that's called testifying.
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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.
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
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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.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.
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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.
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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.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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.
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
