Duty
» “The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.”
– William R. Alger
» ”No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.”
– St. Augustine
» ”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
» ”Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.”
– Ambrose Bierce
» ”Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.”
– Thomas Carlyle
» ”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
» ”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
» ”Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.”
– Pierre Corneille
» ”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
» ”Duty cannot exist without faith.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
» ”The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.”
– George Eliot
» ”Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
» ”Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart’s sanctuary.”
– Augusta Jane Evans
» ”Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.”
– John Fowles
» ”I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.”
– Edward Gibbon
» ”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 Wolfgang Von Goethe
» ”Love can do much, but duty more.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
» ”But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.”
– Oliver Goldsmith
» ”The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
» ”I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.”
– Ellen Sturgis Hooper
» ”It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion –to rid God of His Maggots.”
– Victor Hugo
» ”Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.”
– Joseph Joubert
» ”Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.”
– Thomas
