Duty Quotes
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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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Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.
Immanuel Kant
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I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.
Georges St-Pierre
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The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
William H. O'Connell
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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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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
Tom G. Palmer
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May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.
Adolf Hitler
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
A. Lawrence Lowell
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It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.
Eliza R. Snow
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It's really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it's your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it's easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen.
Jay DeMarcus
Rascal Flatts
