Duty Quotes

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Frank Herbert

I think the first duty of society is justice

Alexander Hamilton

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

He who defines duty for himself is his own master.

Dick Cheatham

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Joseph Addison

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.

George Eliot

In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

James Anthony Froude

What is possible is our highest duty.

William E. Mclaren

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Thomas Jefferson

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein

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.

Lao Tzu

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Kurt Cobain

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

Love can do much, but duty more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Horatio Nelson

Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.

PIERRE CORNEILLE

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.