Duty Quotes - page 2

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. (George Eliot)
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. View quote
Petrarch
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee Thy second duty will already have become clearer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. View quote
Cicero
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. View quote
Alexei Navalny
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. View quote
Simone Weil
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. View quote
Robert E. Lee
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. View quote
Washington Irving
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. (George S. Patton)
That's the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, "to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. View quote
Philip Pullman
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. View quote
George Washington
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. View quote
Edith Wharton
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. View quote
W. C. Fields
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists. (Phyllis Schlafly)
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. View quote
Peter Ustinov
My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own. View quote
David Weber