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The sense of duty or responsibility is something that should be taught to a child at a young age. Teaching children responsibilities will make a world full of adults who care more about the world around themselves and are ready to take up responsibilities and make our society a better living place. Teaching responsibilities to students will help them to become self motivated, take responsibilities for their actions, and become constructive members of the societies. Read these inspiring duty quotes for a better insight on the subject.

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.

Max De Pree

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Bette Davis

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Stephen King

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K. Jerome

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

John L. Lewis

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Indira Gandhi

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

Mia Hamm

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Thomas Paine

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Al Capone

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Dan Quayle

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

James Madison

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Sigmund Freud

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

Art is the proper task of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

James Allen

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Andrew Carnegie

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Joseph Addison

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Julie Andrews

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

Garrison Keillor

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

Cleopatra

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Pythagoras

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Steve Jobs

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

Tommy Cooper

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Alan Watts

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Alexander Hamilton

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Adolf Hitler

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Margaret Sanger

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

John Stuart Mill

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

John Cage

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

William Osler

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Ben Affleck

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

Honor your commitments with integrity.

Les Brown

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Calvin Coolidge

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Cary Grant

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Marcus Aurelius

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Annie Dillard

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Muhammad Ali

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Ray Kroc

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is supuerior to authority.

Lord Acton

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Richard M. Nixon

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Michel de Montaigne

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

William Wilberforce

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Bill Murray

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Matt Damon

A useless life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

John Quincy Adams

Duty is ours; results are God's.

John Quincy Adams

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.

John Quincy Adams

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Nick Cave

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Nick Cave

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Simone Weil

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Simone Weil

You think I have the responsibility... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time.

Thom Yorke

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jimmy Carter

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Jimmy Carter

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Francis of Assisi

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Daniel Webster

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Andrew Johnson

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Andrew Johnson

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Arthur Ashe

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Arthur Ashe

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Alfred North Whitehead

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Bill Maher

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Peter Drucker

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Peter Drucker

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Peter Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility

Peter Drucker

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert Service

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Henry Clay

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Dalai Lama

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Bob Hope

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

Ignatius Loyola

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Leo Buscaglia

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

Ian Mcewan

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Davy Crockett

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

Davy Crockett

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Davy Crockett

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Hank Aaron

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