Duty Quotes
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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 soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
William Gurnall
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Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.
Mother Teresa
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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 Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
Hugo Black
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We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
Jonathan Swift
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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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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster
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Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
Stephen Samuel Wise
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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 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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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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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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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
Astley Cooper
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Wrong no man by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Stonewall Jackson
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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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I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.
Jessy White
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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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There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
Joseph Heller
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The first duty of life is to live.
Burt Lancaster
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We are not people apart; there is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely; no reason why we shouldn't suffer to uphold that which we want to endure than it is anyone else. And it is a matter of self-preservation right this very minute...May God give me courage to do my duty and not falter.
Nile Kinnick
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
Emily Bronte