Duty Quotes
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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and ... but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
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I used to own Jimi Hendrix’s manager’s Shelby Cobra. Then Customs and Excise took it because the duty hadn’t been paid.
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The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.
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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.
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The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
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The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
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Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
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I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.
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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.
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Necessity is stronger than duty.
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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
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If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
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Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty.
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It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
