Duty Quotes

• "Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision."
  By: Canon Henry P. Liddon
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• "All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one."
  By: Sir Roger L'Estrange
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• "He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "They do well, or do their duty, who with alacrity do what they ought."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance."
  By: Charles Kingsley
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• "Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God."
  By: Charles Kingsley
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• "Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them."
  By: Charles Kingsley
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• "It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do."
  By: Thomas a Kempis
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• "Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence."
  By: Immanuel Kant
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• "Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first."
  By: Douglas William Jerrold
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• "Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake."
  By: Douglas William Jerrold
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