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Simple duty hath no place for fear. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The conception of duty has been a means used by the holders of power to induce
others to live for the interests of their masters rather than for their
own. -- Bertrand Russell
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. -- Pearl S. Buck
duties. Cooking duty. Dead guy duty. Maybe it's time for me to get a better duty. Nacho Libre, Nacho Libre -- Peyton Jones
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality. -- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
There is only one duty; that is to be happy. -- Denis Diderot
Duty is not collective; it is personal. -- Calvin Coolidge
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty. -- Len Smith
Beneficence is a duty. -- Immanuel Kant
To do my duty, I must obey God. -- Roy Moore
Love is the death of duty. -- George R R Martin
Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us -- Adolf Hitler
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty. -- Immanuel Kant
Duty and honor, I thought. Stern and difficult taskmasters, but I must obey them both now. -- Cameron Dokey
Duty doesn't always fit comfortably. -- Shannon Hale
Duty, Tattycoram. Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves. -- Charles Dickens
Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. -- Henry David Thoreau
You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty. -- Wesley Clark
What then is your duty? What the day demands. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The greatest duty is to know, love and obey God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it. -- Naomi Novik
Duty is sinless. -- Amit Kalantri
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. -- Marlene Dietrich
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
To hallow'd duty
Here with a loyal and heroic heart,
Bind we our lives. -- Frances Sargent Osgood
Duty is bitter to taste but sweet to drink -- Rosamund Hodge
The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself. -- Clarice Lispector
The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action. -- Debasish Mridha
Oh, Duty is an icy shadow! -- Augusta Jane Evans
Do not
forget duty. But choose love when you can. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. -- Zig Ziglar
The highest duty is to respect authority. -- Bill Vaughan
A sense of duty imprisons you. -- Jenny Holzer
The spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing - and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness. -- Thomas Watson
As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit; but it is a submission which makes the heart bleed. -- Victor Hugo
Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together. -- Robin Craig Clark
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. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
I believe my first duty is to survive. And I'm not just talking about criminals coming into my home. I once seriously considered getting a gun to protect myself from the police. If I need a weapon to continue living, I'll get one. And I'll use it. -- George Carlin
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
We all know our duty better than we discharge it. -- John Randolph
All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty -- Henry Clay Trumbull
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty. -- William Hazlitt
O hard, when love and duty clash! -- Alfred The Great
Your parents and society use that word duty as a means of molding you, shaping you according to their particular idiosyncrasies, their habits of thought, their likes and dislikes, hoping thereby to guarantee their own safety. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. -- George Eliot
What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God. -- Thomas Watson
Family, Duty, Honor, -- George R R Martin
The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment. -- Mason Cooley
My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love. -- Nando Parrado
To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God. -- Ramana Maharshi
Service is born out of love not duty. -- Todd Stocker
Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest. -- John Wilkins
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding. -- W. Somerset Maugham
There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love. -- Debasish Mridha
I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things that have rambled and know not the way. -- Marcus Aurelius
A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor. -- Mario Puzo
It is our mission to forestall our duties -- Alexandre Dumas
Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged. -- Hosea Ballou
Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions. -- William Whewell
The first duty of life is to live. -- Burt Lancaster
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. -- Gustave Flaubert
But for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him. -- Ulysses S. Grant
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin." -- Swami Vivekananda
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. -- Mark Twain
Duty to his wife. Duty to his children. Duty to work, to committees, to charities. Duty to Lynette. Duty to the other women. It was exhausting. It demanded stamina. At times he amazed even himself. -- Richard Flanagan
Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble. -- Idries Shah
There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it. -- Mary Abigail Dodge
Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Odd Thomas -- Dean Koontz
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be -- Chauncey Wright
Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that. -- Bruce Lee
A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering. -- Albert Kesselring
with most men duty means something unpleasant which the other fellow ought to do. -- George Horace Lorimer
Our duties - are the rights of others over us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Love can do much, but duty more. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is one thing ... which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty. -- Jane Austen
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love. -- George Macdonald
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race. -- Andrew Carnegie
The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points
his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by. -- Thomas Paine
You can always tell duty. It's what you don't want to do
it's what you fight against inside you. Duty's when you realize how it'll hurt other people and you choose between that and what would be easiest for you. -- Leslie Ford
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. -- Jose Marti
We all have the duty to do good. -- Pope Francis
Duty is the best and wisest of all teachers. -- Alan Bradley
The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Duty without love is deplorable. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Ambition, the soldier's virtue. -- William Shakespeare
We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need. -- Miep Gies
We must sincerely serve. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Duty is ours; consequences are God's. -- Stonewall Jackson
What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
It is the duty that separates men from boys -- Aporva Kala
What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,
to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us? -- Jeremy Collier
Love can exist alongside duty. Love thrives on duty. And respect. -- Fawzia Koofi
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer. -- Alexandre Vinet
