#duty

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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.


Terry Goodkind


#honor #lyalty #reality #faith

The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.


C.S. Lewis


#faith #faithfulness #service #trust #faith

You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families and ourselves, to take care of ourselves, to contribute to charity, that we have a duty to support a just and righteous law that is stable and predictable.


Mark R. Levin


#duty #law #righteousness #stability #unalienable

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so.


F. Sionil José


#filipiniana #heroism #justice #philippines #family

When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.


Criss Jami


#betterment #complain #complained #complainee #complainer

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.


Louise Penny


#funny #misattributed #neighborliness #ralph-waldo-emerson #snow

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.


Anne Baxter


#devil #distracting #duty #home #idleness

Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain.


Robert Jordan


#duty #death

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.


Jacques Verges


#accused #defend #defended #democracy #discuss

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.


Anonymous


#difficulty #divorce #duty #fear #source