Quotes with duty

  • Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
  • Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
  • All mankind Is born for perfection And each shall attain it Will he but follow His nature's duty.
  • We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
  • The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
  • The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
  • The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
  • It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
  • My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
  • How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
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  • Bruce Lee Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Sir John Lubbock Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Bertrand Russell A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bhagavad Gita All mankind
    Is born for perfection
    And each shall attain it
    Will he but follow
    His nature's duty.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • James Baldwin Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Joseph Addison Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Charles Lamb How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Davenport I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
    Abraham Davenport
     
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • St. Ambrose of Milan No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
    St. Ambrose of Milan
    Bishop of Milan (339 - 397)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Stephen King Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
    The Gunslinger (1982) 145
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Bernhard von Bulow Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • William R. Alger The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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