Duty Quotes - Page 37

• The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

  Ovid

  Granted, Pleasure, Cease

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

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• And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heaven, Littles, Hell

  "Past and Present and Chartism".

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• As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

  Romain Rolland

  Children, Lying, Men

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• When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

  Clara Zetkin

  Men, Voice, Silent

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• I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Honest, Kind, Songwriting

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• I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

  Nellie Bly

  Usual, Impatient, Newspapers

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.267, Golgotha Press

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• My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

  Kajol

  Children, Giving, Needs

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• I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.189, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Purpose, Weapons

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Thoughts are not subject to duty.

  Martin Luther

  Subjects

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• It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

  William McFee

  Romantic, Adventure, Vision

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, People, Looks

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• Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Simple, Feelings

  Rainer Maria Rilke “Letters: 1910-1926”

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• The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights, Government

  William Jennings Bryan (1917). “Heart to Heart Appeals”

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• Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

  Mike Royko

  Political, Hollywood

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• The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

  William Godwin

  Men, Principles, Done

  William Godwin (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.597

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• Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

  William Godwin

  Justice, Moral, Moral Duty

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• Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

  Margaret Fuller

  Solitude, Hours

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.393, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

  Ian Fleming

  Hero, Doe, Way

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• To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Autumn, Men

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• I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Hate, Self, Feelings

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• A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

  Ramakrishna

  Prayer, Block, Real

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• Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Heart, Heaven, Dry

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• I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Educational, Neglect, Miscellaneous

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• There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Kindness, Animal

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