duty Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about duty.
“It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.”
- Gita, Bhagavad
“We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.”
- Asa Gray
“Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.”
- Helen Rowland
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
- Winston Churchill
“For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.”
- Nicolaus Copernicus
“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”
- W. C. Fields
“It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.”
- Harold MacMillan
“The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.”
- George MacDonald
“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.”
- Lao Tzu
“We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.”
- Bernard Sanders