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Duty Quotes

"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."

"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."

Thomas Kempis, German Writer

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"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."

"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."

John Spratt, American Politician

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"I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent."

"I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent."

Lisa Snowdon, English Model

Duty, Trying, World

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"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."

"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."

Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese Revolutionary

Duty, Force, State

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"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."

"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Duty, Responsibility, Life, Patriotism

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"Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness."

"Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness."

Ike Skelton, American Politician

Duty, States, Today, United

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"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."

"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Duty, Children, Education, Equality, God

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"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow."

"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow."

Nellie Bly, American Journalist

Duty, Poor, Results

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"Consult duty not events."

"Consult duty not events."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

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"It is the duty of man to raise up man."

"It is the duty of man to raise up man."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

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"Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago."

"Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago."

Liam Neeson, Irish Actor

Duty, Film, Jury, Years

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"And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?"

"And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?"

Alexander McCall Smith, British Author

Duty, Love, Truth, Responsibility

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"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."

"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

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"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."

"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Duty, Reward, God, Effort

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"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."

"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."

David Guterson, American Author

Duty, First, Unconscious

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"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."

"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."

Leroy Chiao, American Astronaut

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"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."

"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."

Ernestine L. Rose, Polish Feminist

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"Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others."

"Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others."

Mencius, Chinese Philosopher

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"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."

"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist

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"IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established."

"IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established."

Charles Inglis, Canadian Clergyman

Duty, May, states

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"Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them."

"Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them."

Maria Monk, Canadian Celebrity

Duty, Right, Sin

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"I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify."

"I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify."

Ramsey Clark, American Public Servant

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"Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me."

"Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Duty, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

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"But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it."

"But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it."

Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician

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"I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent."

"I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

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"Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else."

"Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else."

Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

Duty, First, Writer

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"I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty."

"I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty."

Ernst Rohm, German Soldier

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"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."

"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Duty, Heaven, Rest

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"We all know our duty better than we discharge it."

"We all know our duty better than we discharge it."

John Randolph, American Leader

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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."

Abbie Hoffman, American Activist

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"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."

"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."

James Harvey Robinson, American Historian

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"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."

"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."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

Duty, Resilience, Morality, Suffering

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"I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write."

"I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write."

David O. Russell, American Director

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"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

John Burns, English Activist

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"So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can."

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Duty, God, Youth

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"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."

"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."

Thomas Szasz, American Psychologist

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"We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength with due fear courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah!"

"We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength with due fear courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Duty, Assignment, God, Strength, Fear

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"But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you have, it... I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it's your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know?"

"But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you have, it... I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it's your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know?"

Tim Curry, British Actor

Duty, May, Sound, World

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"Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites."

"Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites."

Edith Wharton, American Author

Duty, Marriage, Dignity, Restraint

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"When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers."

"When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers."

Gordon Gee, American Educator

Duty, Universe, University

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"If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do."

"If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Duty, Care, Family, Comfort, Expectation

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"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."

"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."

Ellen Key, Swedish Writer

Duty, Fidelity, Liberty, Observation

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"Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it."

"Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it."

Hugh Jackman, Australian Actor

Duty, Emotions, Want

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"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."

"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."

Mortimer Adler, American Philosopher

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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."

"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."

Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor

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"Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less."

"Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less."

Robert E. Lee, American Soldier

Duty, Language, Word

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"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."

"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."

Henry Fielding, English Novelist

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"Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers."

"Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers."

Barney Ross, American Athlete

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"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."

"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."

Ann Oakley, British Sociologist

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"Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty."

"Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty."

Joey Skaggs, American Celebrity

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