Duty Quotes
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. (Quote by - George Eliot)
When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was service; humblest service done By willing and discerning souls was glory. (Quote by - George Eliot)
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. (Quote by - Harold McMillan)
But what is your duty? What the day demands. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Take up the White Man's burden. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. (Quote by - Giuseppe Mazzini)
Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy (Quote by - Owen Feltham)
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. (Quote by - Ann Oakley)
It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)
The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Not aw'd to duty by superior sway. (Quote by - John Dryden)
If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself. (Quote by - George Patton)
In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)
England expects every officer and man to do his duty this day (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty? (Quote by - Anna Katharine Green)
We are part of the community of Europe and we must do our duty as such. (Quote by - Lord Salisbury)
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. (Quote by - George Washington)
I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:-- Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? (Quote by - Ellen Sturgis Hooper)
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. (Quote by - Robert E Lee)
England expects that every man will do his duty. (Quote by - Lord Horatio Nelson)
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. (Quote by - Ulysses S. Grant)
Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still. (Quote by - Bishop Reginald Heber)
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. (Quote by - Zachary Taylor)
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences. (Quote by - Lord Milner)
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty. (Quote by - Giuseppe Mazzini)
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. (Quote by - Cicero)
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. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see The curved line ever follow thee. (Quote by - William MacCall)
Never mind your happiness; do your duty. (Quote by - Peter F Drucker)
Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread. (Quote by - Lewis Morris)
Thank God, I have done my duty (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Perish discretion when it interferes with duty (Quote by - Hannah More)
Left that command Sole daughter of his voice. (Quote by - John Milton)
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The first duty of a government is to give education to the people. (Quote by - Simon Bolivar)
Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For the day never comes when it'll du To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
