Duty Quotes


The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government. Unknown Duty 415
Justice is the sum of all moral duty. William Godwin Duty 206
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. Robert Baden-Powell Duty 198
A man who neglects his duty as a citizen is not entitled to his rights as a citizen. Tiorio Duty 189
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw Duty 174
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 Duty 169
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. Thomas Jefferson Duty 143
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing. John D. Rockefeller Duty 134
Duty is what one expects from others. Oscar Wilde Duty 119
It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call! Robert Louis Stevenson Duty 119
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. Edward Gibbon Duty 112
Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather. Japanese Proverbs Duty 100
But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. Oliver Goldsmith Duty 94
England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson Duty 94
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Henri FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel Duty 93
Duty is the sublimest word in the language; you can never do more than your duty; you shall never wish to do less. Robert E. Lee Duty 92
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Duty 90
Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. Ambrose Bierce Duty 89
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety. Tryon Edwards Duty 89
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully. Henry David Thoreau Duty 86
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source. Andrew Johnson Duty 86
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life. Henry Ward Beecher Duty 83
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. Theodore Roosevelt Duty 83
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself. Oscar Wilde Duty 83
It is worthy of special remark that when we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself. Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt Duty 82
To do my duty, I must obey God. Roy Moore Duty 82
The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. Proverbs Duty 81
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. William Hall Duty 80
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. Joseph Joubert Duty 80
Consult duty not events. Walter Savage Landor Duty 80
Where there are no rights, there are no duties. Henri Benjamin Rebecque Duty 79
A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people. Brad Henry Duty 79
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 Duty 77
Make your life a mission-not an intermission. Arnold Glasgow Duty 76
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been. George Eliot Duty 76
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. John Morley Duty 75
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. John D. Rockefeller Duty 75
I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. David O. Russell Duty 74
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. Thomas Jefferson Duty 72
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. Saint Augustine of Hippo Duty 70
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper. Ghose Aurobindo Duty 69
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 Duty 68
I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent. Ray Liotta Duty 67
Never step over one duty to perform another. English Proverbs Duty 65
Death is lighter than a feather but Duty is heavier than a mountain. Robert Jordan Duty 65
But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it. Benjamin F. Wade Duty 64
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it. Thomas Henry Huxley Duty 59
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. John Fowles Duty 59
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 Duty 58
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Woodrow Wilson Duty 58

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