Duty Quotes

• "When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must trust charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty; but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps heaven will show us the reason why."
  By: Mrs. Craik (pseudonym of Dinah Maria Mulock)
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• "Duty is not collective; it is personal."
  By: Calvin Coolidge
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• "The sense of duty pursues us ever."
  By: Joseph Cook
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• "If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?"
  By: Confucius
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• "Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him. Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world."
  By: James Freeman Clarke
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• "There is no moment without some duty."
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short)
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• "The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move in the world . . . we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
  By: Winston Churchill (2)
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• "There is no mean work save that which is sordidly selfish; there is no irreligious work save that which is morally wrong; while in every sphere of wife "the post of honor is the post of duty.""
  By: Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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• "The sense of duty is the fountain of human rights. In other words, the same inward principle which teaches the former bears witness to the latter. Duties and rights must stand and fall together."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "No man living in deliberate violation of his duty, in willful disobedience to God's commands, as taught by conscience, can possibly make progress in acquaintance with the Supreme Being. Vain are all acts of worship in church or in secret, vain are religious reading and conversation, without this instant fidelity."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "I see nothing worth living for but the divine virtue which endures and surrenders all things for truth, duty, and mankind."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes."
  By: Richard Cecil
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• "The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!"
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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• "In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message."
  By: Bishop Joseph Butler
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