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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess - you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important for us as a group of Navy SEALs, to make sure that the message that we send to the country is that we're ready to serve any commander in chief, the elected head of the armed forces, that the people of the United States elect. That is our mission, that's our duty, as Navy SEALs.
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I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
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- Nov 07, 2020