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Quotes About Duties

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!
~ Lord Byron
Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
~ John Cameron
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
~ Voltaire
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
~ Henry de Montherlant
Then, if women are to have the same duties as men, they must have the same nurture and education? Yes. The education which was assigned to the men was music and gymnastic. Yes. Then women must be taught music and gymnastic and also the art of war, which they must practise like the men? That is the inference, I suppose. I
~ Plato
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come
~ Dean Koontz
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals, with loving one place—home—above all others.
~ Dean Koontz
Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals, with loving one place—home—above all others.
~ Dean Koontz
Americans should expect far more from a president than merely that he not be provably a criminal. They should expect a president to comport himself in accordance with the high duties of his office.
~ George T. Conway III
Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.
~ Unknown
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Salt was so important that Roman soldiers were given extra money to purchase it. This was referred to as a "salarium," from which our word "salary" derives. Soldiers who performed their duties particularly well were said to be worth their salt!
~ Joe Schwarcz
Duties had kept him in London. A place he increasingly detested. A mood that may have come with age, for he had loved the city when he was young, in those last golden days of Victoria's reign. The world had seemed so sure.
~ John Bainbridge
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadnes
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
The family is the school of duties - founded on love
~ Felix Adler
Our hope is a word and world of proud, independent nations that embrace their duties, seek friendship, respect others, and make common cause in the greatest shared interest of all: a future of dignity and peace for the people of this wonderful Earth.
~ Donald Trump
Content with their hardly-won triumphs, that worthy body of men seemed to rest upon their oars. In the plenary enjoyment of their rights of conscience, they forgot the great vital principles of their forefathers, and their own duties and responsibilities.
~ J.C. Ryle
Los prejuicios han nacido en ti a falta de luces y, sea razonando, sea sin razonar, hacen que tu conducta sea tan inconsecuente como extraña. Sometido a verdaderos deberes, te impones otros con los que es imposible o inútil cumplir; finalmente, buscas hacerte separar del camino en la persecución del objeto cuya posesión te parece más deseable. Nuestra unión, nuestros vínculos pasan a depender de una voluntad ajena.
~ Jacques Cazotte
Geralmente a nascença dos estylos se origina ou das necessidades características de cada povo, pelos materiaes mais accessiveis, pela natureza do solo ou do clima, ou então por um desses fortes movi- mentos espirituaes que modificam a situação do homem em face da cousa publica, dando-lhe novas necessidades e deveres...
~ Unknown
Robbie ran through the plans for the week. Duties were defined, tasks distributed, responsibilities clarified. He tried to appear upbeat, hopeful, confident that a miracle was on the way.
~ John Grisham
What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our
~ John Henry Newman
How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.
~ John Howard Griffin
had missions she was charged to perform—but she had taken them on as personal challenges, not out of some loyalty to a higher order. The galaxy didn't have the right to give her odd jobs. Truly free beings had lives. Slaves had duties.
~ John Jackson Miller
I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos.
~ Unknown