Duty Quotes
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Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met.
Elizabeth Prentiss -
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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We grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.
Elena Ferrante -
God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
John Ruskin -
The gospel does not abolish industry, but changes its nature and chief design; it dignifies toil, mitigates the evils connected therewith, and creates new motives to diligence. The triumph achieved on Calvary never was designed to supersede the duty of close application to enterprising duty. Its first command compels us to some honorable and useful pursuit. Its language is," Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands as we commanded you." " If any man will not work, neither let him eat."
Elias Lyman Magoon -
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
Hugo Black -
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 -
If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.
Evo Morales
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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 -
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 -
It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.
Chris Bradford -
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster -
To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.
Brigham Young -
Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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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 -
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas -
Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
Horace Greeley -
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 -
A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
Ezra Taft Benson -
I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.
Terry Eagleton
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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 -
I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
Gertrude Atherton