Duty Quotes

"Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possib...

"Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes." - Judge Learned Hand
📅︎ Mar 10
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"When a stupid man is doing something...

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." — George Bernard Shaw
📅︎ Feb 18
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"Duty does not require any person to submit to the...

"Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way." - Napoleon Hill
📅︎ Feb 20
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"It's every citizen's duty to challen...

"It's every citizen's duty to challenge their leaders, to keep them honest, and hold them accountable if they're not."
📅︎ Jan 06
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“All the great things are simple, and many c...

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”-Winston Churchill
📅︎ Jan 19
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"We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some ...

"We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral." -James Larkin
📅︎ Jan 21
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"Sometimes the first duty of i...

"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious." - George Orwell
📅︎ Jan 10
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"Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This ...

"Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance." –Swami Sivananda
📅︎ Dec 12
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‘Because I remember, I despair....

‘Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.’ - Elie Wiesel
📅︎ Dec 25
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"Love is the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman'...

"Love is the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? " -George R.R. Martin
📅︎ Dec 20
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As powerful as fear is, it...

As powerful as fear is, it is no match for what compels me. Duty.' - Steven Erikson.
📅︎ Dec 03
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The first duty ...

The first duty of love is to listen. — Paul Tillich
📅︎ Nov 02
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"Evil when we are in its power ...

"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty." ~ Simone Weil
📅︎ Jul 29
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"The first duty...

"The first duty of love is to listen."-Paul Tillich
📅︎ Jul 01
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"It is the duty of the human understandin...

"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand..." --Søren Kierkegaard
📅︎ Jun 30
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All I have is a sense of duty toward all...

All I have is a sense of duty toward all people and an attachment to those with whom I have become intimate. - Albert Einstein
📅︎ Jul 14
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"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive ...

"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation." — Bertrand Russell
📅︎ Jul 01
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“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He wh...

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done." – Charles Mackay
📅︎ Jun 10
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Those who have the priv...

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act. -Albert Einstein
📅︎ Apr 14
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"When a stupid man is doing something...

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - George Bernard Shaw
📅︎ Apr 06
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"When you go into court you are putting your f...

"When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." — Norm Crosby
📅︎ Jan 29
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The reward of one du...

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. George Eliot
📅︎ Feb 17
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"Ten years I devoted to the duty you charged me. Ten years I loo...

"Ten years I devoted to the duty you charged me. Ten years I looked after those who'd died at sea. And finally, when we could be together again, you weren't there. Why weren't you there?" - Davy Jones
📅︎ Jan 07
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“When injustice bec...

“When injustice becomes law duty becomes law.” -Thomas Jefferson
📅︎ Feb 01
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" Remember, your work may be only to sweep a railway cros...

" Remember, your work may be only to sweep a railway crossing, but it is your duty to keep it so clean that no other crossing in the world is as clean as yours." - M. Viswesariya
📅︎ Sep 13
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Only enemies speak the truth; fr...

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Stephen King
📅︎ Jul 24
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being hone...

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail." —Thomas Jefferson "Suggestions for the King (1775)
📅︎ Nov 08
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"A king's duty is to hi...

"A king's duty is to his people. Without them he is no king at all!" Ling Yao
📅︎ May 31
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"Duty does not require any person to submit to th...

"Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way." -Napoleon Hill
📅︎ Sep 27
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I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble ta...

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller
📅︎ Sep 09
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“To keep the body in good health is a...

“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha
📅︎ Jun 08
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"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the...

"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." - Sherlock Holmes
📅︎ Sep 30
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"When you go into court you are putting your f...

"When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." — Norm Crosby
📅︎ Jul 21
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"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out ...

"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood." - George S. Patton
📅︎ Jan 31
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involv...

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve. – William S. Burroughs
📅︎ Oct 01
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“When dictatorship is ...

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty”.” ― Armadeu de Prado
📅︎ Jan 14
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, ...

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. " — Helen Keller
📅︎ May 11
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price,...

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt
📅︎ Apr 18
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"Why do they say I hate my country? And what does that even mean? Am I supposed to hate my to...

"Why do they say I hate my country? And what does that even mean? Am I supposed to hate my town, am I supposed to hate all English people, or my government? And if I do hate my government, does that mean I hate my country? It's a democratic duty to criticize the government." - Ken Loach
📅︎ Mar 19
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'It is the duty of the Patr...

'It is the duty of the Patriot to protect his country from its government.'- Thomas Paine
📅︎ May 30
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"I believe that every right implies a respon...

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty." -John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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"To keep the body in good health is a ...

"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."- Buddha
📅︎ Nov 19
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"Killing is killing whether done for d...

"Killing is killing whether done for duty, profit, or fun. Men murdered themselves into this democracy." - Richard Ramirez
📅︎ Sep 12
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“Happiness is as contagious as gloom. It shou...

“Happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.” – Maurice Maeterlinck
📅︎ Feb 14
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It is not the novelist's...

It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show. -Anthony Burgess
📅︎ Aug 13
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"Love is the death...

"Love is the death of duty." - Maester Aemon, Game of Thrones
📅︎ Jun 01
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"We have now sunk to a depth at which...

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men" -George Orwell
📅︎ Jan 31
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He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from ...

He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. -Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (9 Feb 1737-1809)
📅︎ Feb 09
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price,...

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life." Theodore Roosevelt
📅︎ Nov 10
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"Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public val...

"Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth." -George W. Bush
📅︎ Apr 15
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“The duty of youth...

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” ― Kurt Cobain
📅︎ May 13
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"As a Christian, I have no duty to allow mysel...

"As a Christian, I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice." -- Adolph Hitler, 1922
📅︎ Oct 05
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"Did is a word of achievement. Won't is a word of d...

"Did is a word of achievement. Won't is a word of defeat. Might is a word of bereavement. Can't is a word of defeat. Ought is a word of duty." — Gerard Hargraves
📅︎ Mar 21
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"It is the soul's duty to be loyal t...

"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion." - Rebecca West
📅︎ May 12
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, ...

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
📅︎ Jun 30
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“The first duty of...

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself” ― José Martí
📅︎ Nov 14
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Happiness is the ...

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~ Phillips Brooks
📅︎ Dec 20
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“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it is your...

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it is your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.” - Charles Bukowski
📅︎ Feb 01
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