Duty Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• Artfulness is not simple entertainment,
  especially during upheaval,
  unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Simple, Creative, Upheaval

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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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• Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.

  Eugen Sandow

  Body, Care, Sacred

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• I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

  Shakira

  Real, Speaks Out, Voice

  "Glamour's February Cover Star, Shakira, Tells Us: "I'm Not on Earth Just to Shake It and Shake It Endlessly" By Jason Sheeler, www.glamour.com. January 7, 2014.

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• The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no
  opinion about things I don’t understand.

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, Differences, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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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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• An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

  Howard Cosell

  New York, Cities, Games

  "Monday Night Football", December 08, 1980.

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• Siddharth accepts me in the way I am. In the first few months of marriage I got bogged down by the
  notion that I had to juggle between handling home duties and starting work on a new film. He explained
  I needn't be a superwoman. He understands that if he could go out to work and end up neglecting things
  at home, so could I.

  Vidya Balan

  Home, Firsts, Way

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• Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Ideas, Progress

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• 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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• For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

  Richard Asher

  Science, Doctors, Careers

  British Medical Journal 2: 502 (1958)

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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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• We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Jobs, Home

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

  Abraham Lincoln

  Might, Belief, Irreverent

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.361, Library of America

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• No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Struggle, Character, Men

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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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• To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Health, Mind

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers”, p.11, Mango Media Inc.

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• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Believe, Winning

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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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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