Duty Quotes
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It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance.
Brad Montague
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Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind.
William Samuel Johnson
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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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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
John Maynard Keynes
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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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.
William Jennings Bryan
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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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At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.
Beatrice Webb
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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.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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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.
Blanche Willis Howard
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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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
William Shakespeare
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India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Albert Einstein
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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?
Adolf Hitler
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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.
George Washington
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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.
Albert Einstein
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She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.
LL Cool J
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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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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Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty.
Epictetus