Duty Quotes - Page 32

• A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

  Richardson Wright

  Friendship, Men, Garden

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• Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Prayer, Neglected

  R. C. Sproul (1984). “Effective Prayer”, Tyndale House Pub

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• It is not so much what we get out of life as what we put into it that determines how large our returns of happiness shall be. The triumphant life is to be achieved through service. But it must be free and not compulsory. . . . There is a place where the path of duty suddenly becomes the path of beauty.

  Frank C. Lockwood

  Life, Path, Return

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• Your country requires
  heroes; be heroes; your
  duty is to go on working,
  and then everything will
  follow of itself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Hero, Goes On

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• I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!

  John Flavel

  Christian, Thinking, Lovely

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.433

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• The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

  E. B. White

  Play, Audience Of One, Please

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

  Kevin Spacey

  Trying, Generations, Done

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• Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

  Oscar Romero

  Peace, Generosity, Dynamism

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• Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Liberty, Citizens

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• The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Punishment, People, Desire

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• Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

  Charles Colson

  Kingdoms, Glory, Posts

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• We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Delight, Holiness, Pleasure

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.666, Discovery House

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• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

  Pascal Mercier

  Revolution, Facts, Dictatorship

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Differences, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Teacher, Intellectual

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• Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.

  Randy Komisar

  Passion, Tough Times, Connections

  Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.93, Harvard Business Press

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• The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As commander in chief, the president does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the president would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Self, President

  Boston Globe, December 20, 2007.

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• I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

  David McCallum

  Country, Feels, Persons

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

  Ann Jillian

  Parent, Lucky, Enough

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• As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil” is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.

  David James Duncan

  Jesus, Evil, Goal

  "When Compassion Becomes Dissent". orionmagazine.org.

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• Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Believe, Angel, Hands

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• The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Feelings, Opponents

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• If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Gratitude, Saint, Want

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• One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of Acts, when Saul the persecutor was converted by a special miracle, the sign given of his conversion was this: "Behold he prayeth." Prayer is the breath of the soul. Just as breathing is the sign of life, prayer is the sign of the life of the soul.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Christian, Prayer, Book

  "Sin and Its Consequences".

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