| Author |
Quotes |
| Anna Katharine Green | Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty? |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Duty cannot exist without faith. |
| Bhagavad Gita | It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. |
| Bishop Reginald Heber | Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still. |
| Book of Common Prayer | To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. |
| Ellen Sturgis Hooper | I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:-- Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? |
| George Bernard Shaw | When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | 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 | What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. |
| Henri Benjamin Rebecque | Where there are no rights, there are no duties. |
| Henry Fielding | When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | 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. |
| James Anthony Froude | In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. |
| James Jeffrey Roche | And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth. |
| James Russell Lowell | 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. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | But what is your duty? What the day demands. |
| John D Rockefeller | Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. |
| John Dryden | Not aw'd to duty by superior sway. |
| John Dryden | Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | Simply duty hath no place for fear. |
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