Duty Quotes - Page 10

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Liberty, Hazards

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Humble, Men, Names

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 204), 1895.

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• But what is your duty? What the day demands.
  [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Demand, Dies

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• Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Slave, Force

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.90

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• I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Taken, Nazi, Jew

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• Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mean, Ideas, Assuming

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.16, Random House

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• Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.

  Horace Bushnell

  Christian, Men, Law

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”

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• One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

  King Albert II

  Independence, Mind, Vision

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

  Mencius

  Responsibility, Roots, Oneself

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• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

  Chanakya

  Relationship, Adversity, Wife

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• The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Courage, Military

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1937). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

  George MacDonald

  Thinking, Ifs

  George MacDonald (2012). “The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes —”, p.214, tredition

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• Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Heart, Light

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

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• Put thou thy trust in God;
  In duty's path go on;
  Fix on His word thy steadfast eye;
  So shall thy work be done.

  Martin Luther

  Eye, Done, Goes On

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  Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

  Ezra Cornell

  Children, Mind, Dear God

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• The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness, I and God are One. Why? The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Essence, Oneness

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• We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Party, Believe

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• England expects every man to do his duty

  Horatio Nelson

  Men, England, Rebuke

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• If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

  Edmund Barton

  Education, Taxation, Bears

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• The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Men, Ethos

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.276, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Must's a schoolroom in the month of may

  e. e. cummings

  May, Months

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.97, Grove Press

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• The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Apollo, Mercury

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [938]

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• People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

  Bob Black

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mother, Father, Wish

  Tristram Shandy bk. 1, ch. 1 (1759 - 1767)

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