1. “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

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2. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

— Nathan Hale

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3. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Robert Jordan

5. “Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.”

— Pat Summitt

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6. “Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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7. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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8. “Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.”

— Simon Sinek

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9. “As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.”

— Abdul Kalam

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10. “Your family is depending on you. There’s no better reason to bring your A-game all the time.”

— Grant Cardone

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11. “Work first, and then rest.”

— John Ruskin

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12. “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”

— Winston Churchill

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13. “True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.”

— John Wayne

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14. “With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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15. “The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.”

— James Hudson Taylor

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16. “Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.”

— John C. Maxwell

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17. “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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18. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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19. “Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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20. “Honor your commitments with integrity.”

— Les Brown

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21. “Beneficence is a duty.”

— Immanuel Kant

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22. “You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.”

— Bhagavad Gita

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23. “Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don’t want to do it.”

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

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24. “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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25. “Always do more than is required of you.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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26. “Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don’t want to do it.”

— David Halberstam

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27. “God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.”

— John Henry Newman

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28. “The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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29. “He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”

— Socrates

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30. “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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31. “Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.”

— Umar

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32. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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33. “There’s no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.”

— Condoleezza Rice

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34. “Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”

— Julius Evola

35. “I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”

— Helen Keller

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36. “Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.”

— Bobby Knight

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37. “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.”

— J. C. Watts

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38. “God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

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39. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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40. “I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

— Pearl S. Buck

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41. “Don’t make excuses, just get it done!”

— Suzanne Yoculan

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42. “I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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43. “Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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44. “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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45. “If a man does his best, what else is there?”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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46. “Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing.”

— Bryan Stevenson

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47. “Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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48. “Why can I not fight for my country too?”

— Deborah Sampson

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49. “Leave this world a little better than you found it.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

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50. “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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