Best duty & felt Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.”

Men Way Feels Felt Walks Duty Lovers Truth Is Shadow Immortality Valleys Everlasting Martyr Steep Calvary Shadow Of Death

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice. We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well.”

Way Believe Wells Country Felt Risk Duty Hero Mark Injustice Horrible Grandfather Sincerely My Grandfather Great American Call Of Duty Above And Beyond American Hero

Author:Mark Felt

“Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.”

World Might Felt Duty Cease Preserves Concentration Camps Ancestor Concentration Camp

Author:Roman Vishniac

“I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.”

Spirit House Felt Honest Duty Hatred Praise Killing Enthusiasm Contempt Fervent Exasperation Praises To God

Author:Mark Twain

“I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.”

Trying Country America Felt Policy Duty Commitment Foreign Policy

Author:Madeleine Albright

“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”

Should Littles Felt Sides Love Is Rooms Grief Impossible Duty Conscience Should Have Calm Pity Injury Resentment Both Sides Bruised

Book:Selected Stories

Source: Selected Stories

“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.”

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.”

People Thinking War Country Father Force Felt Support Air Brother Duty Grew Honor Grew Up Army Soldier Warrior My Brother Officers Grandfather My Grandfather Air Force Kinship

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”

Years Whole Lasts Beautiful Felt Sadness Duty Summer Spread Autumn Cricket Rumor Summertime Beautiful Day Whole Year

Author:E. B. White

“As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.”

Needs Should Hard Felt Support Duty Disappear Vulnerable Diminish Civilised Civilised Society

Author:Justin Welby

“One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.”

Ifs Reason Hands Spirit Felt Born Community Society Position Duty Succeed Democratic Excuse Chiefs Pockets No Excuses

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty.”

Book Hands Felt Religious Justice Duty Balance Sacred Islam Believer Occasions Almighty Sovereign Moderation Literal Religious Education

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.”

Humans Sometimes Felt Duty Cracks Imperfect Being Positive Being Imperfect

Author:Wale

“My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.”

Made Would Be Care Jobs Felt Effort Saws Team Duty Mom Needed Dad Promise My Family Independent My Mom Someday Pulling Team Effort

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and those continuing the process of building the country, to concentrate on that humanitarian, peace-building legacy.”

Feels Country Felt Process Building Duty Humanitarian Legacy Assets Continuing Jordan Peace Building

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where I mixed with less well off people. Maybe it comes from there but I've always felt that it's our duty to make society fairer.”

People Wells Done Jobs Felt Duty Summer Seasons Winter Backgrounds Britain Privileged Mundane Alps Winter Season

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.”

Want Wanted Energy Felt Struggle Duty Married India Distracted Eighteen Suffragettes

Author:Indira Gandhi

“The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham Young, who expressed his profound negative feelings when he first had this principle revealed to him. The Mormons of the 19th century who practiced plural marriage, male and female, did so because they felt it was a duty put upon them by God.”

Firsts Feelings Young Felt Principles Practice Century Example Duty Negative Female Profound Males Including Ancestor 19th Century Negative Feelings

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.”

Want Felt Duty Waste Accomplish My Time Wasting My Time

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.”

People Felt Rocks Duty Wake Up Rock N Roll

Author:Patti Smith

“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.”

Knows Important Pain Speak Felt Walks Share Duty Survival Rain Intense Triumph Speak The Truth

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.”

Felt Parent Moral Duty Protect Distance Guilt Painful Harm Former Coward Helpless Oxygen Hometown Pilgrimage Esther

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.”

Heart Home Running Together Felt Sides Silence Doors Adventure Duty Arms Hotel Running Away Radiant New Adventure

Book:Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the West I felt that it was my obligation, my duty, to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700-million following, yet it's so little known about it, which surprised me.”

Thinking Littles Felt Known Millions Duty West Islam Following Obligation Telling The Truth

Author:Moustapha Akkad

“How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”

Ifs Years Heart Home Faces Joy Night Found Felt Changed Duty Promise Bed Lips Sat Coming Home Rosy

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

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