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Never step over one duty to perform another.
-English Proverb
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Duty is heavy as a mountain but
Death is lighter than a feather.
-Japanese Proverb
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Rank imposes obligation.
-Anon.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.
-Proverb
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
-William R. Alger
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
-Ghose Aurobindo
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How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
-Pierre Corneille
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Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.
-Theodore L. Cuyler
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Duty cannot exist without faith.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
-George Eliot
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Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
-Augusta Jane Evans
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
-John Fowles
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Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.
-Charles A. Garfield
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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
-Edward Gibbon
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Make your life a mission-not an intermission.
-Arnold Glasgow
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
-Johann von Goethe
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Love can do much, but duty more.
-Johann von Goethe
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Books about Duty
