Quotes on Duty

To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.Confucius

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The eight greatest words ever put together in the English language: America, America, God shed His grace on thee...

A part of that grace is a responsibility I believe each of us has: to make sure we provide those who follow us with the same opportunities you and I were given by those who preceded us. That's uppermost among all that I've tried to do as a coach - I and thousands of other coaches and teachers that kids across this country have been fortunate enough to have at some point in their lives.Bobby Knight

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This is the source.

Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.Benjamin Franklin

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Understand the context.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty.Nelson Rockefeller

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must understand the fatigue of supporting it.Thomas Paine

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We are free when our lives are uncommitted, but not to be what we were intended to be. Real freedom is not freedom from, but freedom for.Robert Youngs

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A hundred times a day, I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving.Albert Einstein

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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.George Orwell

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