24 quotes
“Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.”
— Justinian I
“The family is the school of duties founded on love.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“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 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
“Success is your duty obligation and responsibility”
— Grant Cardone
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
— George Washington
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
— Ambrose of Milan
“The path of duty lies in what is near, and man seeks for it in what is remote.”
— Mencius
“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
— Alexander Pope
“Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.”
“Do not be ashamed to need help. You have a duty to fulfill just as a soldier on the wall of battle.”
— Wendell Berry
“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
“The sword of justice has no scabbard.”
— Joseph de Maistre
“Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The first duty of love is to listen”
— Paul Tillich
“The wretched have no compassion; they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”
— Samuel Johnson
“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
“With faith, discipline, and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
— Calvin Coolidge
— James Allen
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