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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

“I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.”

Bigs Today Film Young Next Actors Realizing Duty Industry Directors Late Approach Hollywood Silent University Cinema Vague Young Actors Hollywood Films Silent Films

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.”

Men Christ Realizing Liberty Duty Occupation Fulfilling Free Man Shrinking Distasteful

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.”

Giving Purpose Realizing Fate Duty Limits Performances Soldier Loyalty Obedience Tragic

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.”

Should Problem Realizing Poor Rich Duty Solutions Intricate

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.”

Knows Women Realizing Duty

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.”

“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.”

Men Done Moments Individual Realizing Failing Duty Highest Vices Supreme Punishment Abandon Over It Shallowness

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Persons Doe Stills Helping Feelings Action Humanity Choices Realizing Cases Duty Ought Sorrow Strive Motive Absent Sympathetic

Author:Allen W. Wood

“If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.”

Ifs Realizing Duty Circumstances Office Capable Obligation Pope

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.”

Firsts Littles School Bits Realizing Duty Little Bit Tests Candidates Pilots Selected

Author:Alan Shepard

“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.”

“I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.”

Life Humans Matter Helping Use Realizing Duty Highest Helping Others

Author:Ben Stein