Duty Quotes
Amit Kalantri
Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.
3080 Jane Austen
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
1001 Michael Bassey Johnson
A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.
1176 Vasily Grossman
It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.
2585 Evan Meekins
there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done
1248 John Buchan
When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
2590 Michael Bassey Johnson
There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.
3991 Nikola Tesla
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
1254 George MacDonald
Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.
4796 Agnostic Zetetic
I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.
4651 Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
Eventually, there is one principle, and one principle alone on which the world is hinged: things will work out the way they should, provided we do what we should.
3313 Audre Lorde
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
3231 Edward Abbey
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
2720 Blaise Pascal
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
4580 George Orwell
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
1716 Jane Austen
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
2479 Kailin Gow
We are meant to be.” He pressed his lips to mine again; against myself, against my worry, I once again succumbed to the power of his kiss. “I know that now. Our love is stronger than magic, stronger than the laws of all Feyland. It will survive this...whatever the future brings.” - Prince Kian, Silver Frost.
1760 Robertson Davies
...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.
4646 Robert Jordan
Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain.
2209 Chester Nimitz
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
1187 John Lubbock
I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
3200 John Lubbock
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
1420 Tryon Edwards
Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
3044 Michael Bassey Johnson
Working hard is a fool's anthem, getting others to work for you is the motto for every successful man.
1173 Roman Payne
In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty). In French, the word for ‘Wife’ is the same as the word for ‘Woman.’ En anglais, nous n’avons aucun mot semblable à l’exquise ‘Jouissance!
4121 Unknown Author
And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.
4887 Isabella Poretsis
Everyone has the right to speak their feelings without fear, we all have the right, duty and privilege of allowing that to happen.
3560 Martha Gellhorn
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it
4955 Gustave Flaubert
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
2249 Robert Schumann
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts-such is the duty of the artist.
3540 Terry Goodkind
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
3520 Pat Barker
The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.
3026 Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.
2136 Mohiro Kitoh
Don't think about it. Think, and your actions will betray your thoughts. Don't feel bloodlust. Keep a calm heart. Move forward.
1271 Amit Kalantri
People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.
1166 Amit Kalantri
Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.
4536 Amit Kalantri
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.
3079 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
1521 Idries Shah
But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.
4914 John F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]
1808 Mary Balogh
Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.
Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.
2911 John Lanchester
He was aware of the irony that he who prized his freedom and willingness to seek the truth had been happiest when he had a defined purpose, a sense of duty and obligation, and a specific destination in mind.
2529 James Joyce
Non servirò ciò in cui non credo più, si chiami questo la casa, la patria o la Chiesa: e tenterò di esprimere me stesso in un qualunque modo di vita o di arte quanto più potrò liberamente e integralmente, adoperando per difendermi le sole armi che mi concedo di usare: il silenzio, l'esilio e l'astuzia.
4127 Richard Courant
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
1984 Jeanette Winterson
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
4969 Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
2967 Harper Lee
We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
4742 Ramananda Prasad
You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.
1256 Robert Jordan
If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene
1722 Lity Munshi
how i do my duty?to make others happy.then where i am doing for my need ?duty comes to myself first then i can do for others
3628 Albert Camus
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
4518 Lailah Gifty Akita
Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.
3359 Bertrand Russell
So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
4667 Sivananda Saraswati
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
4290 Immanuel Kant
if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about his fate than despondent or dejected, wishes for death and yet preserves his life without loving it, not from inclination or fear but from duty, then his maxim has moral content.
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