Duties Quotes
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The leader must have trust in the people he leads; trust that they will perform their duties well. The people in the ranks must have trust in their leaders; trust that they will perform their duties completely. The people in the ranks must have trust and confidence in one another; trust that each will perform their duties well as members of the team.
Hal Moore -
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
Felix Adler
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HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
Henrik Ibsen -
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
Hans Jonas -
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
She wouldn’t forget that somewhere, beneath the duties and the obligations, she still deserved joy.
Courtney Milan -
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
Oscar Wilde
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The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
Oscar Wilde -
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
Mahatma Gandhi -
From Antonius he first received some brief appointments as procurator, than was made perfect, and discharged the duties of this office in a most satisfactory and just manner, in so far as he was free to follow his own judgment.
Cassius Dio -
You are not asked to apply your mind continually to the thought of God and lay aside the fulfillment of your duties and your recreations.
Alphonsus Liguori -
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius -
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.
Clarence Day
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
Oscar Wilde -
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.
Confucius -
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
Dorothea Dix -
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Humphry Davy
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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
Immanuel Kant -
On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and best wishes to the men and women of India who will henceforth be a citizen of a republic. I feel deeply thankful for the affection showered on me by all sections of the people, which alone enabled me to hear the burden of an office to the duties and conventions of which I had been an utter stranger.
C. Rajagopalachari -
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.
Edward McKendree Bounds