Quotes with duties

  • In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
  • In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
  • Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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  • Doug Larson Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Sydney Smith Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Arthur Capper County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barry Cornwall Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I enter; for it is my doom To tread thy labyrinthine gloom; To note who round me watch and wait; To love a few; perhaps to hate; And do all duties of my fate.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • William Ellery Channing Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Linus Pauling Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
    Linus Pauling
    American scientist (1901 - 1994)
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  • Mark Twain Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Theodore L. Cuyler God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.
    Theodore L. Cuyler
    American Presbyterian minister and religious writer
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  • Thomas Paine I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Andrew Johnson I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Edward VIII I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
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  • Samuel Johnson If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Laurence Peter In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
    The Peter Principle
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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