Duty Quotes
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O'Rourke
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund Barton
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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
R. C. Sproul
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Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
Napoleon Hill
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God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
Francis Chan
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge
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The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The highest duty is to respect authority.
Bill Vaughan
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster
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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
Plato
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
Zachary Taylor
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There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
Walter Camp
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman
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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
John Milton
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
Omar Bongo
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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold MacMillan
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
C. P. Scott