Duty Quotes

• "However dear you hold your patrimony, your honor, or even your life, you should be willing to sacrifice all to duty, if you are called upon, to do so."
  By: Silvio Pellico
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• "Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, "Do right because you are bound to do right." "Do right though the heavens fall." There is a world of difference between "You had better" and "You are bound to.""
  By: Francis Landey Patton
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• "Who escapes a duty avoids a gain."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind depended upon our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "Let men 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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• "No man's spirits were ever hurt by doing his duty; on the contrary, one good action, one temptation resisted and overcome, one sacrifice of desire or interest, purely for conscience' sake, will prove a cordial for weak and low spirits, far beyond what either indulgence or diversion or company can do for them."
  By: William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa
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• "The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by."
  By: Thomas Paine
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• "To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives."
  By: Frances Sargent Osgood
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• "We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
  By: George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair)
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• "Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world."
  By: William Mountford (1)
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• "The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find in it our pleasure."
  By: Mmm. Langlois de Motteville
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• "Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread."
  By: Sir Lewis Morris, Epic of Hades, quoted by Hohn Bright at Unveiling of Cobden Statue
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• "We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us."
  By: Hannah More
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• "Left that command Sole daughter of his voice."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 652)
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• "The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult."
  By: Mencius
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• "I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other."
  By: William Melmoth ("Sir Thomas Fitzosborne")
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