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“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?”

Humans Soul Asks Responsibility Rights Duty Dare Human Soul

Book:The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches

Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches

“Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.”

Knows Giving Long Heaven Waiting Numbers Duty Dare Fixed Our Time Permission

Book:The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus

Source: The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus

“I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?”

World Believe I Believe Share Duty Findings Tools Dare Serenity I Have Learned

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.”

“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.”