Duty And Attitude Quotes

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Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top”
Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

Anne Brontë
“By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me, and my reward shall be hereafter.”
Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

Aaron Dennis
“If I don't hold myself to the highest standards, who will?”
Aaron Dennis

“Duty is doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons, without regard to the cost to one’s self.”
Angelo Dirks, Seven Dogs in Heaven

“Mankind has a divine duty, to be stewardship of the natural resources.”
Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

“Anger becomes righteous when you use it to defend the rights of another, without nursing any selfish motive.”
Dada J. P. Vaswani

David Malouf
“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the very edge of the known world. To protect what? A hundred or so mud and wattle huts, three hundred savage strangers who do not even speak my tongue. And, of course, my own skin.”
David Malouf, An Imaginary Life

“90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials.”
Oscar Auliq-Ice

George Sand
“Вы слишком требовательны, это не приносит счастья в жизни. Вы что ж, хотите, чтобы человек так вот сразу понял свой долг и тут же исполнил его?”
George Sand, Исповедь молодой девушки / Она и он

“The day time will stop moving, had I known and fulfillment will be the clock hands that will show many people the hour that passed and moment in which they are.”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Life is a service. What you will do lies in your soul.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Guy Haley
“There were no pure pleasures in this world that duty could not spoil.”
Guy Haley, The Beheading

Michael Faraday
“Non saprei meglio terminare le nostre conversazioni che esprimendo il desiderio che possiate nella vostra esistenza meritare d'essere comparati ad una candela; che possiate com'essa brillare qual fiamma per coloro che vi circondano, che possiate in tutte le vostre azioni emulare la bellezza del lucignolo, adempiendo con onore ed efficacia i vostri doveri verso i vostri simili.”
Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle: Unlocking the Mysteries of Chemical Reactions in a Candle's Flame

“Find a way to use all bricks along your road to awesome, even if some of those bricks were thrown at you.”
Donavan Nelson Butler, MSG, US Army Retired

“We don't want him, we want you.-- Cooper Hawkes.

This isn't a dating service. We're in the middle of a war. If we stop following orders, there will be no order. It'll all fall apart.- T.C. McQueen”
James Morrison as T.C. McQueen and Rodney Rowland as Cooper Hawkes in Space Above and Beyond

Hjalmar Söderberg
“He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases”
Hjalmar Söderberg

“You don’t know what your account balance of personal courage is until that situation presents itself where that check needs to be written and cashed”
Donavan Nelson Butler

“Leading by example through "Servant Leadership" used to be a badge of honor that distinguished you from the Corps of the Blue Falcon. Present day I see the ranks of the Blue Falcon surging in a flagless flotilla of blurred morals, a low tide of integrity, and selfish ethics adrift with no anchorage. The pulse of the led is directly influenced by the organizational heart rate of the leader.”
Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
“To make life beautiful, you have to be dutiful”
Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Joseph Addison
“Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.”
Joseph Addison

Tara Sim
“Fuck duty." It was a sentiment she had carried for years, but it had a different flavor in her mouth now, tinged not with adolescent rebellion but with weary disillusionment. What good was something like duty when it amounted to little more than unchallenged obedience?”
Tara Sim, The City of Dusk

“If a LEADER is using their time wisely, they don't have time to look for attention or feed an ego. The reward just happens as a pleasant byproduct.”
Donavan Nelson Butler, MSG, US Army Retired

Bikramjit Konwar
“Duty is not what someone is telling you to act; Duty is that which your pure intelligence, your heart is telling you.”
Bikramjit Konwar