Duty Quotes - Page 35

• Liberty is a duty, not a right.

  Benito Mussolini

  Liberty

  "Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism". Book by Tim Redman, p. 114, Speech on the 5th anniversary of the Combat Leagues (March 24, 1924), 1991.

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• As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

  Jonas Mekas

  Confused, Eye, Way

  "iPOP | This Week on the Scene: NYFF, Wall Street, “Dirty Girl” & More" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 7, 2011.

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'
  Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day -- if you live long enough -- most people get what they deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Discipline, Long

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• I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters who have passed down this duty from generation to generation, perhaps for thousands of generations: The world has misery, the world has suffering. Do what you can to reduce the pain. Do what you can to soothe people's minds. Don't just counsel, Mr. Therapist ... console.

  Swami Veda Bharati

  Spiritual, Pain, Ambition

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• One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

  David Gemmell

  Wall, Fear, War

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• The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Believe, Animal, Catholic

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1955). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”

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• ...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.743, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Stars, Guides, Statutes

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• We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

  Richard Bach

  Jobs, Philosophical, Cutting

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• I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Use, Advantage

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• The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

  Mark Twain

  Worry

  Mark Twain, Richard P. Wasowski (2004). “CliffsComplete Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

  Adam Clarke

  Scripture, Holy, Interest

  Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.64

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• There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating so heavy duty, that he can overcome the style skating. There's always the chance that the style skater can come back, but the whole deal really is learning tricks.

  Christian Hosoi

  Two, Style, Hawks

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• Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Progress, World, Good Health

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• In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Peace, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.104

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• When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed...Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious.

  Alan Turing

  Peace, Real, War

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• Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Important, World, Helping

  M.A. Center, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Lead Us To Purity”, p.171, M A Center

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• Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when free To tread the springy turf,— to hear the trees Communing with the gales,—to catch the voice Of waters, gushing from their rocky womb, And singing as they wander... Spring-hours will come again, and feelings rise With dewy freshness o’er thy wither’d heart.

  Robert Montgomery

  Nature, Wall, Spring

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “A Universal Prayer, Death, A Vision of Heaven and A Vision of Hell”, p.130

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• I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Two, House Guests, Forget

  Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

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• In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

  Mark Burnett

  War, Airplane, Two

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We shall do our duty. We shall not surrender our freedom and our very existence to Jewish or any other power. We shall preserve our heritage and our hard-won rights and freedoms. We shall guide our people up the evolutionary stairway to the stars.

  David Duke

  Stars, Rights, Ku Klux Klan

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• God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our sorrows, the darkness deepens about us and creeps into our heart, and our strength changes to weakness. But, if we turn away from the gloom, and take up the tasks and duties to which God calls us, the light will come again, and we shall grow stronger.

  Lettie Cowman

  Heart, Light, Darkness

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• You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

  Seneca the Younger

  Home, Night, Wish

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• I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know [sigh], it’s nice to make people laugh sometimes.

  Julian Sands

  Nice, Drama, Character

  "The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands". Interview with Michelle Orange, www.ifc.com. August 3, 2009.

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• If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Achieve, Prodigies

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.268, Vintage

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