Duty Quotes
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Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty.
Epictetus
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Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
Malachy McCourt
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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.
Bono U2
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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
Benjamin Carson
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Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am
William Shakespeare
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Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.
Jeff Shaara
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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.
William Wilberforce
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Love is the only duty that we know.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
Angelina Jolie
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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.
John Milton
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I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.
William Carey
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Necessity is stronger than duty.
Seneca the Younger
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
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You are a lawyer! On the contrary, you have the duty to use all the tricks to defend your clients. To lie. To slander.
Jean Giraudoux
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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.
Jason Mraz
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I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.
Ayad Allawi
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She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.
LL Cool J
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If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society.
William Wilberforce
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
George Washington
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It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
Daniel Coit Gilman
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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
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God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot