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Duty Quotes - Page 15

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

Walter Bagehot, Ruth Dudley Edwards (1993). “The best of Bagehot”

As a citizen, you have a duty to ask what is true and what is false.

Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

It is my duty to be a father to my kids.

Source: www.ocregister.com

Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3690, Manonmani Publishers

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.269, Univ of Wisconsin Press

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

"Fictional character: Travis Bickle". "Taxi Driver", www.imdb.com. 1976.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Mark Twain, Richard P. Wasowski (2004). “CliffsComplete Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

"John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, The Paris Review, Issue 188, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2009.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.53, Harvard University Press

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

George MacDonald (2012). “The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes —”, p.214, tredition