Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 321 till 340 of 1725.

  • John Banville Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Colin Powell Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Augusto Pinochet During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
    Augusto Pinochet
    Chilean general, politician and dictator (1915 - 2006)
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  • Burton Richter During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Carol Shea-Porter During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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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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  • Benjamin Disraeli Duty cannot exist without faith.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Duty is not collective; it is personal.

    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Robert E. Lee Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • John Fowles Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
    John Fowles
    English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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  • Mark Twain Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    Source: The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Anita Desai Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every artist was first an amateur.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Annie Dillard Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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