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 | "A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we
must come back and settle the account at last." | |
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Joseph F. Newton
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| "Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will
already have become clearer." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence." | |
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Thomas Jonathan Jackson
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| "DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit,
along the line of desire." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and
you will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled." | |
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William Ellery Channing
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| "I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that
life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, poor heart,
unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light
to thee." | |
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Ellen Sturgis Hooper
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| "Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy
of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands
results." | |
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George W. Goethals
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| "Laugh when you can; cry when you must." | |
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Unknown
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| "Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided.... No personal
consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty." | |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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| "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear
ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a
thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour"." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "Make it a point to do something every day that you don?t want to do.
This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without
pain." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to
learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the
spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to
which your later work belongs." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the
antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for
the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And
having that do choke their service up Even with the having...." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you
fail." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly,
caught in the web of duty." | |
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Stephen King
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| "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty
whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." | |
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Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman
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| "The first duty of love is to listen." | |
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Paul Tillich
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| "The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another." | |
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George Eliot
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| "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being
happy." | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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| "To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible." | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are
many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive
of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around
them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is
their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind,
however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral
worth, but is on a level with other inclinations.... For the maxim lacks
the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from
inclination." | |
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Immanuel Kant
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| "When I"m not thank"d at all, I"m thank"d enough; I"ve done my duty,
and I"ve done no more." | |
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Henry Fielding
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| "When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do
the most disagreeable first." | |
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Josiah Quincy
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