Our Duty Quotes
201 quotes by 175 authors
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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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
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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
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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This…
— Benjamin Carson
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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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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…
— Forbes Burnham
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In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all…
— William Barclay
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
— William Gurnall
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can…
— Ingvar Kamprad
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To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand…
— Christina Rossetti
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Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same…
— Thomas S. Monson
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We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our…
— Samuel Johnson
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