Best First Duty Sayings
96 First Duty quotes by 77 unique authors
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The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole,…
— Baba Hari Dass
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The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of…
— Maria Montessori
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The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it…
— Maria Montessori
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the…
— Richard Viguerie
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As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish…
— Romain Rolland
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The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction…
— William Godwin
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We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in…
— William Shakespeare
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The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
— Simon Bolivar
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
— Henrik Ibsen
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
— Abbie Hoffman
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National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
— Theresa May
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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…
— Ian Mcewan
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
— George Orwell
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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
— Ronald Reagan
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual…
— John Ruskin
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains…
— John Ruskin
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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The first duty of love is to listen.
— Paul Tillich
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