"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."

Duty, Service, Country, Power, Action

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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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"Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself."

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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

Humor

"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."

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"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

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"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."

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"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden."

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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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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."

"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden."