quotations about duty
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
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
No duty is imposed on the rich.
EUGENE EDINE POTTIER
The Internationale
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANN OAKLEY
Taking It Like a Woman
The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.
C. W. LEADBEATER
The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals
I do perceive here a divided duty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
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
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
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
The superior man is the man who fulfils his duty.
EUGENE IONESCO
Rhinoceros
It's your duty duty, to shake that booty booty
LENE
"It's Your Duty"
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
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
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 modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
GEORGES BERNANOS
Last Essays
It is wrong to tantalize you so while you are braving all things in trying to fulfil duty. Duty is black and brown--home is bright and shining, and the spirit and the bride say come, and let him that wandereth come, for behold all things are ready.
EMILY DICKINSON
letter to William Austin Dickinson, October 1851
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
You've seen balloons set, haven't you?
So stately they ascend
It is as swans discarded you
For duties diamond.
EMILY DICKINSON
"The Balloon"
We never fail when we
try to do our duty--
We always fail when we
neglect to do it.
LORD BADEN-POWELL
Rovering to Success