quotations about duty
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
JOHN FOWLES
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The Magus
No duty is imposed on the rich.
EUGENE EDINE POTTIER
The Internationale
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
ANDREW JACKSON
speech to troops, Jan. 8, 1815
You have your duty and your heart. To chose one means the other must suffer.
TOMI ADEYEMI
Children of Blood and Bone
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANN OAKLEY
Taking It Like a Woman
I do perceive here a divided duty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.
C. W. LEADBEATER
The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to the President of Congress, Feb. 9, 1776
The superior man is the man who fulfils his duty.
EUGENE IONESCO
Rhinoceros
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
It's your duty duty, to shake that booty booty
LENE
"It's Your Duty"
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
GEORGES BERNANOS
Last Essays
Duty is obligation, the bastard child of loyalty and the will to serve; when you think about it, just another roundabout way of saying love. No wonder it causes so much pointless damage.
K. J. PARKER
Evil for Evil
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Beyond Good and Evil
We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
A man who does his duty because it is the custom, like the man who abstains because of other men's opinions and practices, simply reflects what exists around him--it is not his own duteous act or virtue; it lies on the surface, it has not penetrated his soul.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
When the destinies of the world are at stake, there comes a point at which private esteem and admiration must give way to the sense of public duty.
WILLIAM ARCHER
Shirking the Issue: A Letter to Dr. George Brandes
The journey of life is plain and straight enough if people were trained to make principle their watchword and duty their rule.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
HENRY FIELDING
Tom Thumb the Great
That famous ring that pricked its owner when he forgot duty and followed desire--I wonder if it pricked very hard when he set out on the chase, or whether it pricked but lightly then, and only pierced to the quick when the chase had long been ended, and hope folding her wings, looked backward and became regret?
GEORGE ELIOT
Silas Marner