Duty Quotes - Page 7

• Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

  Robert James Graves

  Taste, Pleasure, Wells

  Robert James Graves (1863). “Studies in Physiology and Medicine”, p.34

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• Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

  Sivananda

  Inspiration, Lord, Treats

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• I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

  Robert Boyle

  Thinking, Events, May

  Robert Boyle (1835). “Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God...”, p.97

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• It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Eye, Men, Faithful

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

  John James Audubon

  Mother, Father, Navy

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• A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Law, Moral, Individual

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”, p.214

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• It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  Thomas De Quincey (1854). “De Quincey's works”, p.125

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• I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

  Audre Lorde

  Pain, Rain, Survival

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  Edith Wharton

  Worst

  The Age of Innocence ch. 34 (1920)

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• Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

  Ann Landers

  Money, Jobs, Maturity

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• When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

  Charles Warren Stoddard

  Life Is, Chiefs, Hinder

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• Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

  John Ruskin

  Birthday, Time, Past

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.94

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• There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

  Jose Marti

  Happiness, Happy, May

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

  Theodore Parker

  Sacrifice, Laughing, Desire

  "Checklist For Life For Moms" by Thomas Nelson Publishers, (p. 139), 2005.

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• The sense of duty pursues us ever.

  Joseph Cook

  Pursue

  Joseph Cook (1881). “The Boston Monday Lectures”

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• Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

  William Shakespeare

  Simplicity, Midsummer, Mid Summer Nights Dream

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82

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• The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Death, Justice, Cry

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Diplomatic Immunity”, p.60, Baen Books

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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

  War, May, Causes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.293

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• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Leadership, Order

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• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gratitude, Philosophical, Inspirational Christmas

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• It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Criticism, Shouting

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• The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
  The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless,
  Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Flower, Men

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.398

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• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Lying

  "An Essential Part of Being'" by Brian Weatherley, November 12, 2010.

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• I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

  Andrew Johnson

  Economy, Source, Frugality

  First State of the Union Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. December 04, 1865.

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• How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Trying, Know Yourself

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