Duty Quotes

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

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

I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

Love can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone Weil

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli

England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Ellen Key

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Mencius

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God gave me a great body and it’s my duty to take care of my physical temple.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
David O. McKay

When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough, I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.
Henry Fielding

It is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
John Burns

Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Earl Wilson

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William Gurnall

It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
John Randolph

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
John James Audubon

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
Brad Henry

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Pierre Corneille

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
Zachary Taylor

They held it their duty to live but for their country.
William Godwin

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
William R. Alger

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Author: Joseph Addison

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
Randall Terry

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Book of Common Prayer

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

Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Let us 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

Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli