Duty Quotes

The Constitution of the United States asserts that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty.

Thomas Jefferson

The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

Oscar Wilde

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Oscar Wilde

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

John D. Rockefeller

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

Christopher Hitchens

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Pierre Corneille

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Theodore Parker

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

Theodore Parker

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

Edward Gibbon

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.

General Robert E. Lee

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What is possible is our highest duty.

William E. Mclaren

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Each position has its corresponding duties.

George Eliot

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

George Eliot

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

Henri Benjamin Rebecque