Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old duty quotes, duty sayings, and duty proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
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A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.Plato
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Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.Swami Sivananda
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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.Phillips Brooks
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.Theodore W. Parker
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The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another.George Eliot
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The reward of doing one duty is the power to do another.Rabbi Ben Azai
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.Thomas Jefferson
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The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.Cicero
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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.James Allen
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Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.Charles Kingsley
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Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.Henry David Thoreau
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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations.Bertrand Russell
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Duty is what one expects from others.Oscar Wilde
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.Kurt Cobain
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Duty is the sublimest word in the language; you can never do more than your duty; you shall never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
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A man who neglects his duty as a citizen is not entitled to his rights as a citizen.Tiorio
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Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.Andrew Carnegie
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Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.Mazo de la Roche
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.Indira Gandhi
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.Robert Baden-Powell
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.John D. Rockefeller
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It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.Jupiter Hammon
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.George S. Patton Jr.
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It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.John Legend
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Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.Pierre Corneille
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n action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.Immanuel Kant
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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.Mencius
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Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn't melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.Claudia J. Edwards
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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.William Godwin
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The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.Thomas Paine
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.Robert Louis Stevenson
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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
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We all have the duty to do good.Pope Francis
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With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.George Bernard Shaw
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.Benjamin Franklin
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The primary function of the state is to muster the necessary power needed to adequately perform its duty.
Georges Bakaly
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Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things.Robert E. Lee
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Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
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A servant would view such orders from their masters as their duty and would do what their master told them to do.R. Luke Thompson
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.Ambrose Bierce
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what is is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.Steven Mason
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.Oliver Wendell
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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.T.Szasz
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny.Alexis Carrel
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.Mohandas Gandhi
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties anymore.Georges Bernanos
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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smile and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.Humphrey Davy
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.Thomas Huxley
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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable.Mark Twain
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A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.Mark Twain
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If each one sweeps before his own door, the whole street is clean.Yiddish saying
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It is the duty of man to raise up man. One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.Jose Marti
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Stand up and be responsible for yourself. Be aware of your mind, and take responsibility for yourself.Suzuki Shosan
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.Jean-Baptiste Moliere
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him, and to let him know that you trust him.Booker T. Washington
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Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.Elizabeth Cady Standon
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.George Bernard Shaw
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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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To let oneself be bound by a duty from the moment you see it approaching is part of the integrity that alone justifies responsibility.Dag Hammarskjold
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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.Pearl S. Buck
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Duty without enthusiasm becomes laborious; duty with enthusiasm becomes glorious.William Arthur Ward
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The present means our duty at the moment. If we put all our strength into doing our duty, as we know it at this moment, we shall have made the highest human effort.Mahatma Gandhi
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Sorrow springs from dreaming of the future and from lamenting the past. Hence one who concerns himself with the present and does his duty has neither birth nor death.Mahatma Gandhi
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The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.Erich Fromm
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Work of your own free will, not from duty. We have duty. The world is just a gymnasium in which we play: our life is an eternal holiday.Vivekananda
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There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.Cicero
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.Mahatmi Gandhi
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This is the sum of duty; Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.Mahabharata
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Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.Thomas Huxley
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The world belongs to the cheerful. The soul's highest duty is to be of good cheer.Emerson
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear. We must get rid of fear; we cannot act at all till then.Thomas Carlyle
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Fear is never a good counsellor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.Nikolai Berdyaev