DUTY QUOTES

quotations about duty

Do your full duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

GEORGE S. PATTON

The Patton Papers 1885-1940


Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

OSCAR WILDE

A Woman of No Importance


Forbidden fruit a flavor has
That lawful orchards mock;
How luscious lies the pea within
The pod that Duty locks!

EMILY DICKINSON

"Forbidden Fruit"


What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think, and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure -- as a mere automaton of duty?

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Antichrist


What is the task of all higher education? To turn men into machines. What are the means? Man must learn to be bored. How is that accomplished? By means of the concept of duty.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Twilight of the Idols


What moves the Greek warrior to deeds of heroism ... is not a sense of duty as we understand it ... duty towards others: it is rather duty towards himself.

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Caesar and Cleopatra


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

Life Thoughts


A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he'd always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

C.S. LEWIS

Letters of C.S. Lewis


O hard, when love and duty clash!

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

The Princess


For duty, duty must be done;
The rule applies to everyone.

W.S. GILBERT

Ruddigore


There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles,", The Writings of Madame Swetchine


The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.

GEORGE ELIOT

Daniel Deronda


Every right carries with it a corresponding duty.

MOHANDAS GANDHI

Young India, March 26, 1931


In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

JOSEPH ADDISON

Cato


The night is falling, the time has come
Your duty is calling, a distant drum

BZN

"When Will We Meet Again", A Symphonic Night


Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.

PIERRE CORNEILLE

Horace


Pure duty is the essential moment of relating itself, qua universality, to others.

GEORG W. F. HEGEL

The Phenomenology of Spirit


Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Dirty Hands


When one duty start is when one duty stop
One nine to five, one five to twelve o'clock

DAMIAN MARLEY

"Beautiful"