T Quotes
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“The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.”
Source: A Square Deal
“The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to the resources available to us in Christ. We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God's tasks. This is the law of grace. When we recognize it is impossible for us to perform a duty in our own strength, we will discover the secret of its accomplishment.”
“The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.”
“The duties of an officer are the safety, honor, and welfare of your country first; the honor, welfare, and comfort of the men in your command second; and the officer s own ease, comfort, and safety last.”
“The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.”
Source: Abandonment to Divine Providence
“The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.”
Source: A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects
“The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.”
“The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.”
“The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or
“The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.”
“The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence or defense; for the redress of grievances or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.”
Source: Commentaries on the constitution of the United States
“The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.”
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist
“The duty of a Christian is to obey Jesus Christ.”
“The duty of a cop is "to serve and protect."
It is what American citizens expect.
But when a cop does subject
Police brutality on a suspect,
He loses the citizens respect
Since his duty he has neglect.”
“The duty of a dancer is to dance.”
“The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.”
“The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.”
“The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.”
“The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.”
“The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it”
“The duty of a lecturer is to lecture.”
“The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.”
Source: The Poems of James Stephens
“The duty of a mentor is mentoring”
“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.”
“The duty of a police is to act against the vengeance of the people not to act for his vengeance against the people”
“The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.”
“The duty of a professor is to teach natural laws.”
“The duty of a singer is to sing.”
“The duty of a student is to study.”
“The duty of a teacher is to teach.”
“The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.”
“The duty of an actress is to act.”
“The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.”
“The duty of an Usher is to serve, not to be servile.”
Source: The Event Usher’s Handbook
“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.”
Source: TARTUFFE
“The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius
“The duty of doing what you love fuels a fuller sense of being.”
“The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution”
Source: Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”
“The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.”
Source: Happiness
“The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance
“The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence
“The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.”
Source: The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker
“The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.”
Source: On life & letters
“The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule”
“The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.”
Source: The Rights of Man
“The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.”
Source: Three Essays on Religion
“The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.”
“The duty of pain is to change you, either for better, or for worse.”
Source: Stamerenophobia