Duty Quotes
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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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.
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We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.
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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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We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.
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Necessity is stronger than duty.
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Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.
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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.
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Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty.
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All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his 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
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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
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India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
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May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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Love is the only duty that we know.
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The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.
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I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
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The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.
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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
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The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
