Duty Quotes

• I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.

• Duty is ours, results are God's.

• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

• The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.

• He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

• We only know of one duty, and that is to love.

• 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.

• Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression.

• We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

• Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares it as his duty.

• There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.

• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

• Attention to our duties provides far greater rewards than beauty and wit. Self-control is what differentiates us from the beasts. Without it, we are merely animals.

• The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

• A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

• 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.

• ...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

• 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.

• The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

• The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

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