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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.
If you feel alone and you've got nowhere to run to, always remember that your family is always there for you. It's their duty.
I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.
What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.
I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.
There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.
I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
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.
Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.
With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
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.
It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?