Duty Quotes

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. (Maxim Gorky)
There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. View quote
Rebecca West
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. View quote
Helen Rowland
England expects that every man will do his duty. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. View quote
Samuel Adams
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny. View quote
George Washington
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
An author's first duty is to let down his country. View quote
Brendan Behan
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. View quote
James A. Garfield
The first duty of love is to listen. View quote
Paul Tillich
Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven. View quote
Pierre Corneille
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. (Winston Churchill)
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. View quote
Zachary Taylor