Duty Quotes

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Augusta Jane Evans

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Thomas Kempis

The difference between goals and mission is reflected in the difference between I want to get married and I want to have a successful marriage.

Source Unknown

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

Proverb

If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable. One would say that it punishes you for comprehending it; but no, it rewards you for it; for it puts you into a hell where you feel God at your side.

Victor Hugo

I insist, that if there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

Abraham Lincoln

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

Charles A. Stoddard

It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.

Victor Hugo

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

Benjamin Franklin

In the old dramas it was love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called the Bitch Goddess, Success. Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars.

Aldous Huxley

Duty is what one expects from others.

Oscar Wilde

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow

Mark Twain

It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good...

Demi Moore

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

Jane Austen

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

Plato

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

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 von Goethe

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

Ghose Aurobindo