24 quotes
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
— Ambrose of Milan
“Success is your duty obligation and responsibility”
— Grant Cardone
“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country, is the jewel of the kingdom.”
— Sun Tzu
— James Allen
“The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
— George Washington
“Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.”
— Justinian I
“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
— Alexander Pope
“The first duty of love is to listen”
— Paul Tillich
“With faith, discipline, and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
— Calvin Coolidge
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Do not be ashamed to need help. You have a duty to fulfill just as a soldier on the wall of battle.”
— Wendell Berry
“The sword of justice has no scabbard.”
— Joseph de Maistre
“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable importance, we ought to do it.”
— Peter Singer
“Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.”
“The family is the school of duties founded on love.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“The path of duty lies in what is near, and man seeks for it in what is remote.”
— Mencius
“Life can mean nothing worth meaning, unless its prime aim is the doing of duty, the achievement of results worth achieving.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“The wretched have no compassion; they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”
— Samuel Johnson
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