Duty Quotes
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer’s brief: to be himself.
The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Duty is heavy as a mountain but
Death is lighter than a feather.
To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread.
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
God has entrusted me with myself.
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
Never step over one duty to perform another.
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Love can do much, but duty more.
I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty:
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.
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.
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
