Duty Quotes
26 quotations about Duty
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
Love can do much, but duty more.
But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Consult duty not events.
What is possible is our highest duty.
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Rank imposes obligation.
Never step over one duty to perform another.
Where there are no rights, there are no duties.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Authors on Duty
William R. Alger
St. Augustine
Ambrose Bierce
Thomas Carlyle
Pierre Corneille
Benjamin Disraeli
George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
English Proverb
Augusta Jane Evans
John Fowles
Edward Gibbon
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Joseph Joubert
Walter Savage Landor
William E. Mclaren
George Meredith