Duty Quotes
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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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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
John Ruskin
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No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.
David McIntyre
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I think most people didn't want to do court duty.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
John Ruskin
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Thoughts are not subject to duty.
Martin Luther
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I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.
Paul Cook
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Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.
Thomas Ken
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
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As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
Ernest Renan
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To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.
Brigham Young
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In our Army every soldier must care about his job. Often- if the duty seems menial or hum-drum- it is hard to cultivate this attitude. But it must be done. What you do in your job each day, you do for the Army.
William O. Wooldridge
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When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly.
Paul Cook
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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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
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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.
Brigham Young
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A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin