- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.
- Lips
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- Nov 07, 2020
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my damn duty and obligation to do everything possible for Europe to find a united path.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a duty as the state to protect our economy... We are for the protection of intellectual property.
- Consequently
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
- Brave Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the centuries, the country has looked on as Parliament has faced historic decisions. Even in the most challenging of times, we have pulled together and put our duty above all else.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had the biggest democratic exercise, and the majority voted to leave the E.U. It is our duty to make sure we do that.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020