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
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