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Duty Quotes
Doing what's owed, quietly and consistently.
Several lines here connect duty to public life — holding elected leaders accountable through voting, or a president's duty to protect national security. See Responsibility quotes for a closer look at that theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had served in the Republic of Korea in the early '80s while I was on active duty as a director of intelligence for U.S. forces Korea, and kind of followed developments on the peninsula ever since.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
- You
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.
- Ready
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
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- Nov 07, 2020