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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others. -- James Taylor
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves. -- William Gurnall
All the things I've done are about duty and guilt: trying to do your best to better other people's lives. -- Jonathan Powell
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. -- Theodore Parker
I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth. -- Joe Frazier
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. -- Millard Fillmore
In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly. -- Henry Spencer
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other. -- James Harvey Robinson
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. -- Denis Diderot
What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well. -- Kamala Harris
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. -- John Keegan
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. -- John Stuart Mill
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. -- Andrew Jackson
Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish. -- Thomas Szasz
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. -- Charles Babbage
The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is. -- Aubrey de Grey
The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation. -- Lafcadio Hearn
If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars. -- Nina Bawden
Duty is what one expects from others. -- Oscar Wilde
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others. -- Louisa May Alcott
Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others ... -- Marguerite Yourcenar
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. -- C. S. Lewis
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. -- Mencius
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom-physical, mental, and spiritual-and help others to do so. -- Swami Vivekananda
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own. -- David Weber
Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others. -- Swami Vivekananda
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well. -- Clovis Chappell
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain. -- Vyasa
happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others. -- Alice Hegan Rice
It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring -- Robyn Davidson
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness. -- Zoroaster
A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty. -- Debasish Mridha
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone. -- John Calvin
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them. -- Dalai Lama
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. -- Eric Hoffer
Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost. -- Glenn Beck
For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache. -- Drake
It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin. -- Stephen Mitchell
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. -- John Ruskin
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. -- Mother Teresa
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves -- Anne Baxter
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. -- Anne Baxter
You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race. -- Madam C. J. Walker

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