Quotes about duty

"The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire."

Alger, William R. on duty   

"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

Augustine, St. on duty
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"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."

Beecher, Henry Ward on duty   

"Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."

Bierce, Ambrose on duty   

"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."

Carlyle, Thomas on duty
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"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on duty   

"When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty."

Cooley, Charles Horton on duty   

"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."

Corneille, Pierre on duty   

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"Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them."

Cuyler, Theodore L. on duty   

"Duty cannot exist without faith."

Disraeli, Benjamin on duty
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"The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another."

Eliot, George on duty   

"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on duty
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"Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary."

Evans, Augusta Jane on duty   

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"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."

Fowles, John on duty   

"I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son."

Gibbon, Edward on duty   

"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on duty
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"Love can do much, but duty more."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on duty   

"But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all."

Goldsmith, Oliver on duty   

"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on duty   

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"I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty."

Hooper, Ellen Sturgis on duty   

"It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots."

Hugo, Victor on duty
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"Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."

Joubert, Joseph on duty   

"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."

Kempis, Thomas on duty
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"Consult duty not events."

Landor, Walter Savage on duty   

"Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less."

Lee, Robert E. on duty   

"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty."

Lincoln, Abraham on duty   

"What is possible is our highest duty."

Mclaren, William E. on duty   

"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."

Meredith, George on duty   

"Rank imposes obligation."

Motto on duty
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"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."

Newton, Joseph Fort on duty   

"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in."

Parker, Theodore on duty   

"Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world."

Parker, Theodore on duty   

"Never step over one duty to perform another."

Proverb, English on duty
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"The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us."

Proverb, Indian on duty   

"Where there are no rights, there are no duties."

Rebecque, Henri Benjamin on duty   

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

Rockefeller, John D. on duty   

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight."

Roosevelt, Theodore on duty
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"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."

Russell, Bertrand on duty   

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

Shaw, George Bernard on duty
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"There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on duty
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