quotations about duty
What chastity is to woman, duty is to man, the willingly assumed burden of their kind.
JANICE MANNING & MARSHALL MASTERS
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The Kolbrin Bible
We never fail when we
try to do our duty--
We always fail when we
neglect to do it.
LORD BADEN-POWELL
Rovering to Success
When the destinies of the world are at stake, there comes a point at which private esteem and admiration must give way to the sense of public duty.
WILLIAM ARCHER
Shirking the Issue: A Letter to Dr. George Brandes
Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn't melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.
CLAUDIA J. EDWARDS
Taming the Forest King
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Great Funny Quotes
Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best:
They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.
HENRY ABBEY
"The Roman Sentinel"
A man who does his duty because it is the custom, like the man who abstains because of other men's opinions and practices, simply reflects what exists around him--it is not his own duteous act or virtue; it lies on the surface, it has not penetrated his soul.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
Duty is like Aaron's rod; hold it fast, and it performs miracles; cast it from you, and it becomes a loathsome reptile.
E.P. DAY
Day's Collacon
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER
Life a Duty
The want of reward is no warrant for us to dispense with our duty.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Clarissa
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
speech, Feb. 27, 1860
From the point of view of the individual, duty is the surrender of one's thought and mind to the fixed ideas of culture, society, and the state.
JOHN F. WELSH
Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism
Oh righteous doom, that they who make
Pleasure their only end,
Ordering the whole life for its sake,
Miss that whereto they tend.
While they who bid stern duty lead,
Content to follow, they,
Of duty only taking heed,
Find pleasure by the way.
RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH
"Retribution"
All domestic pleasures and enjoyments are absorbed in the great and important duty you owe your country.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
letter to John Adams, May 7, 1776
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
"What Is Man?"
Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never do less.
ROBERT E. LEE
Memoirs of Robert E. Lee