Duty quotes - page 74

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
 Hugo Black
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.
I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.
 Tim Tebow
In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.
 John W. Gardner
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
 Saul Bellow
Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.
 Peter Shepherd
Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities.
I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.
 Shooter Jennings
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives.
 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.
 Emmanuelle Beart
God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.
Omissions are not accidents.
 Marianne Moore
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
This generation can only reach this generation.
 David Livingstone
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!
 Jimmy Santiago Baca
We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this and acting on this can lead us into feeling a wonderful sense of well-being and peacefulness.
We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this and acting on this can lead us into feeling a wonderful sense of well-being and peacefulness.
 Jill Bolte Taylor
There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
 Jaron Lanier