Best Duty Sayings
2882 Duty quotes by 1627 unique authors
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often…
— Marc Chagall
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
— Chanakya
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a…
— William Ellery Channing
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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…
— William Ellery Channing
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
— James Allen
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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need…
— Tom Clancy
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
— Ramsey Clark
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
— Kurt Cobain
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment,…
— John Abizaid
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Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
— Doug Larson
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the…
— Rebecca West
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Thank God I have done my duty.
— Horatio Nelson
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Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.
— Stephen Samuel Wise
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A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done…
— Unknown Author
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I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of…
— Antony Hewish
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous…
— Rupert Murdoch
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