- Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.~ Thomas Kempis
- A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.~ Joseph Fort Newton
- 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.~ Bertrand Russell
- Consult duty, not events.~ Walter Savage Landor
- Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.~ Thomas Carlyle
- 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.~ Mark Twain
- Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.~ Pierre Corneille
- Duty before devotion.~ Mexican Proverb
- Duty cannot exist without faith.~ Benjamin Disraeli
- Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.~ Robert E. Lee
- Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.~ Mother Teresa
- Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty — the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.~ Mark Twain
- Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.~ John D. Rockefeller
- 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.!~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.~ Nelson Mandela
- 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.~ Thomas Szasz
- Love can do much, but duty more.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.~ Theodore Roosevelt
- Never step over one duty to perform another.~ English Proverb
- Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.~ Chinese Proverb
- The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.~ William R. Alger
- The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.~Indian Proverb
- The path of duty lies in what is nearby, but men look for it in things far off.~ Chinese Proverb
- The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.~ George Eliot
- The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- 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.~ Abraham Lincoln
- There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times — madness.~ Dutch Proverb
- What is possible is our highest duty.~ William E. McLaren
- When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.~ George Bernard Shaw
- Where there are no rights, there are no duties.~ Henri Benjamin Rebecque
- Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.~ Theodore Parker
