Duty Quotes

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is… — Charles Babbage
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of… — Charles Babbage
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
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… — John Banville
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight… — Roy Barnes
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them… — Samuel Adams
Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to… — Gary Bauer
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. — Simone de Beauvoir
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… — Joseph Addison
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences… — Pope Benedict XVI
If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has… — Pope Benedict XVI
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much… — A. C. Benson
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. — Alfred Adler
The family is the school of duties - founded on love. — Felix Adler
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and… — Annie Besant
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was… — Annie Besant

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