Quote: No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. Author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin 1881-1955, French Christian Mystic, Author
Quote: When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist
Quote: Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven. Author: Pierre Corneille 1606-1684, French Dramatist
Quote: Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them. Author: Theodore L. Cuyler 1822-1909, American Pastor, Author
Quote: Duty cannot exist without faith. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. Author: Augusta Jane Evans 1835-1909, American Writer
Quote: Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. Author: John Fowles 1926-, British Novelist
Quote: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. Author: Edward Gibbon 1737-1794, British Historian
Quote: 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. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Love can do much, but duty more. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1841-1935, American Judge
Quote: I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Author: Ellen Sturgis Hooper 1816-1841, American Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. Author: Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist
Quote: Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. Author: Thomas p Kempis 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer
Quote: Consult duty not events. Author: Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist
Quote: Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less. Author: Robert E. Lee 1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander
Quote: 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. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: What is possible is our highest duty. Author: William E. Mclaren
Quote: Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. Author: George Meredith 1828-1909, British Author
Quote: Rank imposes obligation. Author: Motto
Quote: A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. Author: Joseph Fort Newton
Quote: Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. Author: Theodore Parker 1810-1860, American Minister
Quote: 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. Author: Theodore Parker 1810-1860, American Minister
Quote: Never step over one duty to perform another. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. Author: Indian Proverb Sayings of Indian Origin
Quote: Where there are no rights, there are no duties. Author: Henri Benjamin Rebecque 1767-1830, French Writer, Orator, Statesman
Quote: Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. Author: John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon
Quote: The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: 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. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Charles A. Stoddard
Quote: 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. Author: Thomas Szasz 1920-, American Psychiatrist
Quote: 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. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit