Duty Quotes

"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

"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
-Herbert Spencer

"Let everyone regulate his conduct . . . by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him."
-William Wilberforce

"Duty is not collective; it is personal."
-Calvin Coolidge

"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."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
-Albert Einstein

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
-George Bernard Shaw

"...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you."
-Woodrow Wilson

"We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child."
-Ronald Reagan

"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire."
-William R. Alger

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
-George Eliot

"An off-duty officer should be able to carry weapons anywhere. We're an asset to public safety."
-James Duffy

"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."
-Cicero

"It is the duty of all those who value the Constitution to state that no one, not even a president, is above the law."
-Arsalan Iftikhar

"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."
-Benjamin Cardozo

"I started my career on General Duty in Fort St. John."
-Tim Schewe

"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
-James A. Froude

"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
-Cicero

"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
-George Carlin

"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Duty is ours, results are God's."
-John Quincy Adams

"Almost from the moment she was born, she has done her duty without flinching and without complaint. That's one reason there is deep and abiding affection for her."
-Robert Lacey

"We will continue to c in the US Congress to get duty free access of Bangladeshi garments into the US markets."
-Annisul Huq

"People of faith and conscience will continue . . . because that is the nature of our faith and our moral duty."
-Stuart Taylor

"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."
-Teilhard De Chardin