Duty Quotes

• We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Military, Trying, Failing

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• There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Ideas, Age

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.31, Advaita Ashrama

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• In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Country, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

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• But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Tyrants, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Mean, Law

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• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of ... the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and ernter into another.... Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?

  Samuel Adams

  Religious, Taken, Men

  "The Rights of the Colonists". The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, history.hanover.edu. November 20, 1772.

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• Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Joy, Fit

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

  Calvin Coolidge

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Home

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• Alloted duty means you should live full potentiality with which you are born.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Born, Should

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• I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Income, Purpose

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.91, Modern Library

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• Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Focus, World

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• By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

  Lord Acton

  Believe, Mean, Men

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Hope, Freedom

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

  George Eliot

  Teacher, Responsibility, Power

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.502, 谷月社

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• When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

  Maxim Gorky

  Life, Success, Work

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• Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Business, Responsibility

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Know the enemy and know yourself.

  Sun Tzu

  Fear, Military, War

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Remember, Position, Obliged

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• With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Worthwhile Things, Discipline, Selfless

  Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Care, Littles

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• The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

  James A. Garfield

  Sunshine, Government, People

  "Garfield: A Biography". Book by Allen Peskin, 1978.

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• Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

  Ugo Betti

  Firsts, Accepted, Obligation

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• I think the first duty of society is justice.

  Wendell Phillips

  Inspirational, Justice, Firsts

  "Disunion". Book by Wendell Phillips, January 21, 1861.

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• Duty is ours, results are God's.

  John Quincy Adams

  Reality, Conservative, Results

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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, War

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