Duties Quotes

506 Duties quotes by 376 unique authors

Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every… — Joyce Meyer
(Talks about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)"She was actually a recording star in Puerto Rico when my mom was growing up. My mom was always stuck… — Taylor Swift
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You can’t miss your schedule. Every morning, you’re supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos the smooth inside… — Suzanne Collins
Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities... — Paulo Coelho
You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color inside of them.… — Brandon Sanderson
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be… — Ernest Becker
When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by… — Sheryl Sandberg
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak
. . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and your mind will… — Ilchi Lee
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. — Harriet Martineau
All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties. — Bertrand Russell
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes… — Peter Ustinov
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to… — Seneca the Younger
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. — Samuel Johnson
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years,… — Winston Churchill
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we… — Calvin Coolidge
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each… — Henrik Ibsen
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. — Samuel Johnson
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H.G. Wells
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger. — Alfred North Whitehead
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make. — Paramahansa Yogananda

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