Duty Quotes

• "For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "The path of duty was the way to glory."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson
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• "I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend."
  By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• "There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson
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• "The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors."
  By: Samuel Smiles
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• "There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so."
  By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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• "The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."
  By: Seneca Roman writer (55 BC - 39 AD)
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• "A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations."
  By: Bertrand Russell
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• "A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
  By: Bertrand Russell
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• "Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
  By: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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• "The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty."
  By: Theodore Roosevelt
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• "It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose."
  By: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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• "As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him."
  By: Ernest Renan
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• "Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in."
  By: Theodore Parker
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