| Author |
Quotes |
| Joseph Addison | Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty. |
| Joseph Addison | In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. |
| Lewis Morris | Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. |
| Lord Horatio Nelson | England expects that every man will do his duty. |
| Lord Milner | 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. |
| Mahatma Ghandi | Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. |
| Matthew Prior | Thy sum of duty let two words contain, Be humble and be just. |
| Rudyard Kipling | Take up the White Man's burden. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. |
| Thomas Szasz | It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish. |
| William E Mclaren | What is possible is our highest duty. |
| William MacCall | 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. |
| William Wordsworth | The primal duties shine aloft, like stars, The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers. |
| William Wordsworth | Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice, The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live! |
| William Wordsworth | Stern Daughter of the Voice of God. |
| William Wordsworth | Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. |
| John Milton | Left that command Sole daughter of his voice. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. |
| William Shakespeare | My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. |
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