quotations about duty
Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.
GEORGE MACDONALD
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The Wise Woman and Other Stories
A man who refuses a duty ... is not punished ... but forsaken. And he will never know love or honor or happiness again.
S. M. STIRLING
The Sunrise Lands
You have your duty and your heart. To chose one means the other must suffer.
TOMI ADEYEMI
Children of Blood and Bone
No duty is imposed on the rich.
EUGENE EDINE POTTIER
The Internationale
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANN OAKLEY
Taking It Like a Woman
The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.
C. W. LEADBEATER
The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Beyond Good and Evil
Duty is obligation, the bastard child of loyalty and the will to serve; when you think about it, just another roundabout way of saying love. No wonder it causes so much pointless damage.
K. J. PARKER
Evil for Evil
I do perceive here a divided duty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to the President of Congress, Feb. 9, 1776
The superior man is the man who fulfils his duty.
EUGENE IONESCO
Rhinoceros
That famous ring that pricked its owner when he forgot duty and followed desire--I wonder if it pricked very hard when he set out on the chase, or whether it pricked but lightly then, and only pierced to the quick when the chase had long been ended, and hope folding her wings, looked backward and became regret?
GEORGE ELIOT
Silas Marner
You've seen balloons set, haven't you?
So stately they ascend
It is as swans discarded you
For duties diamond.
EMILY DICKINSON
"The Balloon"
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
GEORGES BERNANOS
Last Essays
The journey of life is plain and straight enough if people were trained to make principle their watchword and duty their rule.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
It's your duty duty, to shake that booty booty
LENE
"It's Your Duty"
We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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