"It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail."

Duty, Effort, Success, Life

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"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Duty, Faith, Life, Planning

"I've never cheated on a lover. I'm faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone's feelings. Every time.Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she'd ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she'd given birth to Gwen's grandmother."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

Duty, War, Love, Conflict

"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Duty, Truth, Soul, Spirit

"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Duty, Religion, Preparation, Hope

"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

Duty, Integrity, Man, Responsibility

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Duty, Care, Responsibility, Selflessness

"Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Duty, Nation, Education, Defense, Life

"To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Duty, State, Life, Call

"The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it is properly manned and every man does his duty, the ship can be safely brought to port."

Sardar Patel, Indian Statesman

Duty, Responsibility, Teamwork, Leadership

"Thou shalt not stand idly by."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Duty, Stand, Idleness, Action, Obedience

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Justice

"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."

Self

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"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."

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"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."

"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."

"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."

"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

"Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation."

"To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me."

"The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it is properly manned and every man does his duty, the ship can be safely brought to port."

"Thou shalt not stand idly by."

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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."

"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."

"The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning."

"If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul."

"Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt."

"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."

"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."

"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."

"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."