Duty Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?
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It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.
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War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is 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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Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
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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's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.
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There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.
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I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
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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.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
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The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.
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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 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.
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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.
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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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.
