quotations about duty
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE
attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World
The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.
C. W. LEADBEATER
The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
HOSEA BALLOU
Edge-Tools of Speech
Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best:
They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.
HENRY ABBEY
"The Roman Sentinel"
DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
JOHN FOWLES
The Magus
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
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Two sides of lonely,
One is heart,
One is duty.
THE LONE BELLOW
"Two Sides of Lonely"
When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
HENRY FIELDING
Tom Thumb the Great
Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Wise Woman and Other Stories
What chastity is to woman, duty is to man, the willingly assumed burden of their kind.
JANICE MANNING & MARSHALL MASTERS
The Kolbrin Bible
The superior man is the man who fulfils his duty.
EUGENE IONESCO
Rhinoceros
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
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
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Great Funny Quotes
I do perceive here a divided duty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
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
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