Duty Quotes
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Trying to be just a parliamentarian doing your duty and trying to keep family out and also the celebrity status out is rare and hopefully I have been able thus far to - been able to protect my wife and children.
Eric Abetz
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Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.
Thomas Ken
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Violence is sometimes a duty.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
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No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
Benjamin Carson
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One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
William Carey
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Words can cause real harm and interfere with a person's education. Campuses have a duty to act-- sometimes legally, always morally-- to protect their students from injury.
Erwin Chemerinsky
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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
Horace Greeley
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On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand it is a pleasure to help those who feel worse than you.
Ornella Muti
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Thoughts are not subject to duty.
Martin Luther
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
Thomas Carlyle
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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
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You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.
David Barton
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Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.
Charles Alexander Eastman
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The true source of rights is duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.
William Shakespeare
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Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can. This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits which are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.
Brigham Young
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
Erica Jong
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas
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Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.
William Deane