Quotes
Quotes about Duty
But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still.
I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:-- Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
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.
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.
What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.
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.
Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread.
England expects that every man will do his duty.
If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.
Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and be just.
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.
Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.
And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers, Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her; And, where I thought the remnant of mine age Should have been cherished by her childlike duty, I now am full resolved to take a wife And turn her out to who will take her in.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
Simply duty hath no place for fear.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
What is possible is our highest duty.
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.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
