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It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Chris Kyle
Life
War
God
Patriotism
People
Enemy
Regret
Job
My Life
Before
Duty
Marines
Soldiers
Worst
About
Clear
Clear Conscience
Buddies
Naive
Come
For The People
Doing
Shoot
Regrets
Stand
Seal
Moments
Conscience
Save
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Faith
You
Discipline
Achieve
Duty
Nothing
Worthwhile
Devotion
Selfless
Cannot
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
Maria Montessori
Love
Teacher
Duty
Higher
Mission
Makes
Educator
Child
Human
Social
Really
Now
Consciousness
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda
Truth
Time
Struggle
Own
Duty
Live
Every
Our
Strive
Possible
Highest
Idea
Ideal
Make
His
Encourage
Up
Same
Same Time
Near
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan
Life
Duty
Unborn
Unborn Child
Protect
Child
The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Florence Nightingale
Daily
World
Heroes
Duty
Those
Maddening
Greatest
Affairs
Domestic
Whilst
Grind
Who
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
Great
Long
Duty
Small
Noble
Were
Accomplish
Chief
Task
Tasks
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.
Jose Rizal
God
Obligations
World
Made
Example
Duty
Creation
Too
Drama
Though
Small
Alleviating
Mission
For Example
Exempt
Sublime
Role
Anything
Cannot
Fulfill
Useless
Beings
Fill
Sufferings
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
Nikola Tesla
Work
Future
Man
Result
Will
Duty
Aim
Way
Immediate
Those
Lay
Point
He
Taken
Advanced
Come
Like
Ideas
Readily
Scientific
Does
His
Up
Expect
Planter
Who
Foundation
For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty.
Robert Mueller
Justice
Constitution
Trust
Women
Obligation
Equality
Liberty
Law
Men
Men And Women
Country
Duty
Most
Also
Faithfulness
Fidelity
Us
Means
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
John Keegan
Veterans Day
Loyalty
Courage
Duty
Others
Soldiers
Compromise
Unrelenting
Absolute
Until
Devotion
Go
Been
Task
Committed
Done
Standards
Letting
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Saint Augustine
Duty
Ought
Our
Because
Praise
Doing
Deserve
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
Truth
Lie
Speak
Enemies
Duty
Web
Only
Caught
Friends
Endlessly
Lovers
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
Faith
Duty
Our
Dare
Makes
Understand
End
Might
Us
Let Us
Lets
Right
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
Donald Trump
Government
Own
Duty
Citizens
Lead
Fails
Most
Unworthy
Any
Lives
Basic
Defend
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee
Me
Quality
Human Being
Duty
Potential
Had
Development
Instinctive
Since
Sincere
Expansion
Child
Human
Being
Urge
Function
Ever
Growth
Honest
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.
Sonia Sotomayor
Justice
Legal
Duty
Society
Our
Ensure
Moral
Moral Duty
Lawyers
Both
Economic
Economic Justice
Educated
Exists
Privileged
Represent
Professional
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
Michael Morpurgo
Funny
Pet
Care
Animals
Duty
Entertaining
Perceptive
Intelligent
Owe
Children
Them
Sentient
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Petrarch
Life
Love
Truth
Good
Soul
Heart
Love Is
Humanity
Grace
Duty
Prophetic
Crowning
Redeeming
Principle
Link
Chiefly
Golden
Which
Eternal
Us
Binds
Right
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie
Future
Care
Will
Duty
More
Take
Take Care
Itself
Little
Your
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Own
Duty
Only
His
Condition
Exists
Improve
Hold
While
Mankind
Assist
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Patriotism
Rebellion
Matter
Duty
Too
Dissent
All-Around
Remain
True
Scoundrels
Often
Refuge
Patriots
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Truth
Truth Is
Reward
Guilt
Duty
Sense
Complexes
Out
Something
Does
Itself
Defending
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
William Barclay
Time
Good
People
Duty
Our
Ways
Surely
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing
Reward
Laughter
Important
Duty
More
Almost
Than
Much
Applause
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
Adversity
Wife
Duty
Difficulty
Relative
Misfortune
Discharge
Test
His
Friend
While
Servant
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