Sayings about Duty
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men look for it in what is remote. ~ Japanese Proverbs
The main thing is that we can smile at our duties , even at our suffering. ~ Chinese Proverb
Never step over one duty to perform another. ~ English Proverbs
Duty before devotion.~ Mexican Proverbs
To serve our elders is a duty, our equals it is polite, but serving the young is humiliating. ~ Serbian Proverbs
It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children. ~ Kenyan Proverbs
Pursue your duties and don’t let them pursue you. ~ Japanese Proverb
Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. ~ Chinese Proverb
To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times — madness. ~ Dutch Proverbs
The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. ~ Indian Proverb
Quotations about Duty
Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known. ~ John Ruskin
Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence. ~ Mathilde Blind
For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone. ~ W.S. Gilbert
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.~ John D. Rockefeller
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer. ~ Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered. ~ Oscar Wilde
Duty is the goddess of manhood and she demands no mean sacrifice. ~ Janice Manning & Marshall Masters
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty. ~ James H. Aughey
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty. ~ Samuel Smiles
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. ~ Andrew Jackson
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Nothing is properly one’s duty but what is also one’s interest. ~ Bishop John Wilkins
Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.~ Nelson Mandela
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. ~ Jean de la Bruyere
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. ~ Thomas Carlyle
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Duty–the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God. ~ Charles Kingsley
Duty is not collective; it is personal. ~ Calvin Coolidge
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force. ~ Joseph Joubert
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. ~ Thomas Szasz
Duty grows everywhere–like children, like grass. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consult duty, not events.~ Walter Savage Landor
Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn’t melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to. ~ Claudia J. Edwards
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart’s sanctuary. ~ Augusta Jane Evans
Duty cannot exist without faith.~ Benjamin Disraeli
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. ~ Joseph Joubert
Love can do much, but duty more.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Duty doesn’t need to call; it only needs to whisper. ~ Dean Koontz
As birds are made to fly and rivers to run, so the soul to follow duty. ~ Ramayana
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.~ Thomas Kempis
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. ~ Joseph Fort Newton
We all know our duty better than we discharge it. ~ John Randolph of Roanoke
God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it. ~ John Ruskin
Let us not run out of the path of duty, lest we run into the way of danger. ~ Rowland Hill
The superior man is the man who fulfils his duty. ~ Eugene Ionesco
Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. ~ Archbishop Richard Whately
If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself. ~ George S. Patton
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult. ~ Mencius
Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain. ~ Robert Jordan
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find in it our pleasure. ~ Langlois de Motteville
We have an intuitive sense of our duty. ~ Jonathan Swift
An enlightened man had but one duty – to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. ~ Hermann Hesse
Do to-day’s duty, fight to-day’s temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them. ~ Charles Kingsley
None should expect to prosper who go out of way of duty. ~ James H. Aughey
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.~ William R. Alger
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. ~ Sir Walter Scott
Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures. ~ George Macdonald
A man who refuses a duty … is not punished … but forsaken. And he will never know love or honor or happiness again. ~ S. M. Stirling
I have learned that to do one’s next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. ~ Henry David Thoreau
From the point of view of the individual, duty is the surrender of one’s thought and mind to the fixed ideas of culture, society, and the state. ~ John F. Welsh
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance–the sense of duty. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free. ~ Mazo de la Roche
Where there are no rights, there are no duties.~ Henri Benjamin Rebecque
All the slaves of duty dig their own graves sooner or later. ~ K. J. Parker
Every duty is great; great, because it tries our principle; great, because for the time being it tries our loyalty to conscience, and our energy and will. ~ E. H. Chapin
There is no moment without some duty. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
In every profession the daily and common duties are the most useful. ~ Author Unknown
Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. ~ Benjamin Robert Haydon
Consult duty, not events. ~ Arthur Annesley
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.~ Pierre Corneille
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. ~ Mark Twain
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty. ~ Edmund Burke
Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love. ~ George MacDonald
There is nothing in the universe I fear but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. ~ Mary Lyon
Simple duty hath no place for fear. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The thing which must be, must be for the best; God helps us do our duty and not shrink. ~ Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.~ Robert E. Lee
Man cannot choose his duties. ~ George Eliot
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. ~ Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. ~ Augustus William Hare
We never fail when we try to do our duty; we always fail when we neglect to do it. ~ Lord Baden-Powell
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Duties are ours; events are God’s. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. ~ Richard Cecil
The sense of duty pursues us ever. ~ Joseph Cook
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. ~ Abraham Lincoln
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Do daily and hourly your duty; do it patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it presents itself; do it at the moment, and let it be its own reward. ~ James H. Aughey
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. ~ Jean de la Bruyere
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. ~ Joseph Addison
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty. ~ William Hazlitt
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience. ~ Henry Edward Manning
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. ~ Mother Teresa
You will always find those who think they know your duty better than you know it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is possible is our highest duty.~ William E. McLaren
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. ~Bertrand Russell
Do well the duty that lies before you. ~ Pittacus of Mitylene
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.~ Theodore Parker
The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.~ George Eliot
The sense of duty is the fountain of human rights. ~ William Ellery Channing
Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions. ~ William Whewell
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel
No man’s spirits were ever hurt by doing his duty. ~ William Paley
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. ~ Ann Oakley
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. ~ John Ruskin
Duty is the demand of the hour. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier. ~ Helen Keller
What is the most important duty? One’s duty toward one’s parent. ~ Mencius
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment. ~ George Eliot
There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere besides the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. I am sure no other is comparable to this. ~ John Tillotson
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. ~ John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
I choose to be found doing my duty. ~ Abraham Davenport
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