Best duty & sacrifice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over ,this earth.”

Earth Religious Sacrifice Duty Wander Meals Instruction Fellowship Alliances Excluded

Author:Guru Nanak

“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

“The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.”

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Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.”

World Country Watches Trouble Sacrifice Mankind Duty Safety Sacred Locals Beloved Motive Consideration Honorable Posterity Agitate Beloved Country

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.”

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Book:De Quincey's works

Source: De Quincey's works

“It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.”

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Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.”

Self Night Morning Sacrifice Duty Return Thousand Labor Dear Affection Crowds Wheels Endurance Procession

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.”

Firsts May Self Sacrifice Duty Development Sake Self Development Self Sacrifice

Book:Women, Church and State

Source: Women, Church and State

“When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.”

Prayer Situation Sacrifice Duty Habit Offers Connected Employment Situations In Life Sacrifice To God

Author:Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

“Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.”

Ifs Giving Should Doe Enough Light Spirit Causes Enemy Failing Sacrifice Ready Duty And Love Defeat Suits Necks Daylight Despised Guile Love And Sacrifice

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.”

“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.”

“Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.”

“Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.”

Ifs Self Matter Today Nations Interest Rights Sacrifice Duty Slave Russia Germany Pens Soviet Rulers Dictatorship Nazi Gang Self Interest Cuba Self Sacrifice Outlaw Nazi Germany Soviet Russia

Author:Ayn Rand

“Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion; and he could recommend matrimony only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty.”

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Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1: Complete in Eight Volumes

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1: Complete in Eight Volumes

“The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.”

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Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.”

Ifs Men Challenges Moral Sacrifice Duty Morality Institutions Code Altruism Present Day Moral Code Moral Duty Live For Others

Author:Ayn Rand

“Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.”

“I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”

Inspirational Self Progress Sacrifice Duty Development Higher Self Improvement Improvement Self Development Self Sacrifice Personal Sacrifice

Book:The Woman's Bible

Source: The Woman's Bible

“But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.”

Ifs May Hard Home Sacrifice Duty Soil Threatened Betrayed Invasion

Author:King Albert II

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