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Duty is ours, results are God's. -- John Quincy Adams
Duty is not collective; it is personal. -- Calvin Coolidge
The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. -- John D. Rockefeller
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. -- Winston Churchill
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. -- Thomas Paine
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. -- Bruce Lee
Duty without love is deplorable. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Duty should be a byproduct. -- Brenda Ueland
Duty cannot exist without faith -- Benjamin Disraeli
Duty is whatever opposes inclination. -- Mason Cooley
Duty is ours; consequences are God's. -- Stonewall Jackson
Duty is the essence of manhood. -- George S. Patton
Duty is God;Work is worship. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Oh, Duty is an icy shadow! -- Augusta Jane Evans
Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Duty is the demand of the hour. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Duty is ours and events are God's. -- Angelina Grimke
Duty is what one expects from others. -- Oscar Wilde
Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Duty never stopped anyone from following their dreams. -- Paulo Coelho
Duty is the sublimest word in our language -- Robert E. Lee
Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's -- Stonewall Jackson
Duty is the sublimest work in the English language. -- Robert E. Lee
Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God. -- Charles Kingsley
I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. -- John Fowles
Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment. -- Penelope Fitzgerald
Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God. -- Horace Greeley
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. -- Fiona Shaw
Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law. -- Immanuel Kant
I'll spend time playing 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor.' -- Kevin Dillon
Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather. -- Robert Jordan
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. -- Zig Ziglar
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation. -- Steve Jones
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life. -- Thomas Merton
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.' -- Adrian Rogers
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. -- George Washington
The first duty of society is justice. -- Alexander Hamilton
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. -- Kurt Cobain
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. -- Charlotte Bronte
Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence. -- Stonewall Jackson
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. -- James Allen
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. -- George Eliot
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. -- Moliere
I know of only one duty, and that is to love. -- Albert Camus
I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life. -- Kelsey Grammer
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. -- Ronald Reagan
If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself. -- George S. Patton
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. -- Thomas Paine
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. -- Andrew Carnegie
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. -- Thomas Jefferson
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. -- Robert Schumann
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. -- Maxim Gorky
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. -- George W. Bush
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. -- Robert Baden-Powell
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. -- George Orwell
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. -- Douglas MacArthur
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. -- Buddha
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. -- Marlon Brando
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. -- William R. Alger
My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life. -- Jack Kevorkian
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. -- Bertrand Russell
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. -- Helen Keller
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
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good. -- Simon Mainwaring
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. -- Swami Vivekananda
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. -- Aristotle
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. -- Henry Rollins
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. -- Nikola Tesla
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. -- George S. Patton
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. -- Chris Kyle
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. -- Barack Obama
He who defines duty for himself is his own master -- Dick Cheatham
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties -- Alexander MacLaren
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter -- Harold MacMillan
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer -- Thomas Carlyle
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary It is, perpetually, a dangerous place -- Margaret Drabble
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due -- Sydney Smith
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power -- Mary Worley Montagu
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Beneficence is a duty. -- Immanuel Kant
Consult duty not events. -- Walter Savage Landor
Necessity is stronger than duty. -- Seneca the Younger
Love is the outlaw's duty. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
Violence is sometimes a duty. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Obedience sums up our entire duty. -- Hosea Ballou
I don't have an off-duty wardrobe. -- Hamish Bowles
Missionary service is a priesthood duty. -- Thomas S. Monson
Sympathy is especially a Christian duty. -- Charles Spurgeon
It's my duty to enlighten people. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thoughts are not subject to duty. -- Martin Luther
Vision looks inward and becomes duty. -- Stephen Samuel Wise
A sense of duty imprisons you. -- Jenny Holzer
Let every lion do his duty. -- J. P. Morgan
My duty is to obey orders. -- Stonewall Jackson
The highest duty is to respect authority. -- Bill Vaughan
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. -- Thomas Jefferson
Without duty, life is soft and boneless. -- Joseph Joubert
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Perish discretion when it interferes with duty -- Hannah Moore
There is no moment without some duty. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. -- Phillips Brooks
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Never mind your happiness; do your duty. -- Peter Drucker
Do your duty today and repent tomorrow. -- Mark Twain
Voting is the first duty of democracy. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Never mind your happiness; do your duty. -- Peter Drucker
Love can do much, but duty more. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Silence is the eternal duty of man. -- Thomas Carlyle
O hard, when love and duty clash! -- Alfred the Great
Love is a better master than duty. -- Albert Einstein
I vote and I do jury duty. -- Christopher Hitchens
Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility -- Grant Cardone

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