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Quotes About Duty

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~ Diana Gabaldon
They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.
~ John Ratzenberger
In all of my assignments, I have conducted myself honorably and in accordance with U.S. law.
~ Gina Haspel
I have incredibly positive associations with the military.
~ Cheryl Mills
I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.
~ Richard Blumenthal
In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!
~ John Prine
Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.
~ Fela Kuti
I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.
~ Rick James
I never dread going back to Congress.
~ Nancy Pelosi
It is not always possible or even right for a man to make his wife number one in his life. This is due to the nature of his life. His number one responsibility is to provide the living.
~ Helen Andelin
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
~ George Eliot
All my life, even as an actor, I felt like I was really trying to be dutiful, which sometimes got in my way of being creative and being an artist.
~ Fala Chen
We all have the duty to do good.
~ Pope Francis
My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.
~ Angeles Mastretta
Look at my record. I have done my duty.
~ William H. Pryor
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
~ Henry Fielding
I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.
~ Leon Panetta
Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
~ Nick Cave
Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
~ John Updike
I feel my duty is to make music.
~ Hozier
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
~ Tammy Duckworth
Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.
~ Nick Hornby
But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
~ Federica Montseny