Duty Quotes

• "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us at night. It is coextensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only leaves us when we leave the light of life."
  By: Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone
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• "When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it."
  By: Washington Gladden
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• "I hate to see a thing done by halves; if it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone."
  By: Bernard Gilpin
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• "Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfillment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty."
  By: William Lloyd Garrison
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• "The people of this country have shown by the highest proofs human nature can give that wherever the path of duty and honor may lead, however steep and rugged it may be, they are ready to walk in it."
  By: James Abram Garfield
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• "Brethren, life is passing; youth goes, strength decays. But duty performed, work done for God--this abides forever, this alone is imperishable."
  By: Richard Fuller (1)
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• "Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all."
  By: Margaret Fuller (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli)
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• "The secret consciousness Of duty well performed; the public voice Of praise that honors virtue, and rewards it; All these are yours."
  By: Saint Francis of Assisi
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• "Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
  By: John Fowles
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• "When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more."
  By: Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (act I, sc. 3)
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• "The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way."
  By: Francois de Salignac Fenelon
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• "I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition."
  By: Francois de Salignac Fenelon
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• "Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not."
  By: Francois de Salignac Fenelon
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• "Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, and consequently should not be any part of your concern."
  By: Epictetus
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• "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Voluntaries (st. 3, l. 13)
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