Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Duty. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Duty Quotes and Sayings from 91 influential authors, including Stonewall Jackson,Daniel Webster,John Greenleaf Whittier,Pearl S. Buck,Peyton Jones, for you to enjoy and share.

Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's By Stonewall Jackson God Lord Duty Consequences

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us. By Daniel Webster Duty Sense Pursues Deity Darkness

Simple duty hath no place for fear. By John Greenleaf Whittier Simple Fear Duty Hath Place

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. By Pearl S. Buck Duty Word Restore Full Meaning

duties. Cooking duty. Dead guy duty. Maybe it's time for me to get a better duty. Nacho Libre, Nacho Libre By Peyton Jones Duties Libre Duty Nacho Cooking

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality. By Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire God Duty Soul Liberty Responsibility

There is only one duty; that is to be happy. By Denis Diderot Duty Happy

Duty is not collective; it is personal. By Calvin Coolidge Duty Collective Personal

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Kant Duty Gratitude Claims Ancients

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty. By Len Smith Duty Nobler Deed Performance

Beneficence is a duty. By Immanuel Kant Beneficence Duty

To do my duty, I must obey God. By Roy Moore God Duty Obey

Love is the death of duty. By George R R Martin Love Duty Death

Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us By Adolf Hitler Duty Forget

The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses. By George Eliot Life Idea Mere Duty Recognition

A man's duty? To be ready with rifle or rood to defend his home when the showdown comes. By Edward Abbey Duty Man Ready Rifle Rood

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty. By Immanuel Kant Action Worth Duty Moral

Duty and honor, I thought. Stern and difficult taskmasters, but I must obey them both now. By Cameron Dokey Duty Honor Thought Stern Taskmasters

Duty doesn't always fit comfortably. By Shannon Hale Duty Comfortably Fit

Duty, Tattycoram. Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves. By Charles Dickens Tattycoram Duty Almighty Begin Early

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. By Henry David Thoreau Duty Invariable Impossibilities Impunity Requires

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty. By Wesley Clark Duty True

What then is your duty? What the day demands. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Duty Demands Day

The greatest duty is to know, love and obey God. By Lailah Gifty Akita God Love Greatest Duty Obey

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it. By Naomi Novik Leaving Friends Fight Duty Understand

Duty is sinless. By Amit Kalantri Duty Sinless

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. By Marlene Dietrich Duties Living Make Life Worth

The conception of duty, speaking historically, has been a means used by the holders of power to induce others to live for the interests of their masters rather than for their own. Of course the holders of power conceal this fact from themselves by managing to believe that their interests are identical with the larger interests of humanity. Sometimes this is true; Athenian slave owners, for instance, employed part of their leisure in making a permanent contribution to civilization which would have been impossible under a just economic system. Leisure is essential to civilization, and in former times leisure for the few was only rendered possible by the labors of the many. But their labors were valuable, not because work is good, but because leisure is good. And By Bertrand Russell Interests Holders Leisure Power Duty

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. By Jean De La Bruyere Duty Grain Strictly Obliged Seldom

Duty is bitter to taste but sweet to drink By Rosamund Hodge Duty Drink Bitter Taste Sweet

The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself. By Clarice Lispector End Terrible Duty Oneself Relying

The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action. By Debasish Mridha Life Greatest Duty Find Ultimate

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow! By Augusta Jane Evans Duty Shadow Icy

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. By Zig Ziglar Makes Duty Beautifully Things Love

The highest duty is to respect authority. By Bill Vaughan Authority Highest Duty Respect

A sense of duty imprisons you. By Jenny Holzer Sense Duty Imprisons

The spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing - and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness. By Thomas Watson Dead Spiritualizing Duty Life Praying

As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit; but it is a submission which makes the heart bleed. By Victor Hugo Compromises Life Regard End Submit

The conception of duty has been a means used by the holders of power to induceothers to live for the interests of their masters rather than for theirown. By Bertrand Russell Theirown Conception Duty Holders Power

Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together. By Robin Craig Clark Wakefulness Duty Fundamental Condition Life

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty. By Giuseppe Mazzini Duty Mission Constitutes Pledge Fulfilment

I believe my first duty is to survive. And I'm not just talking about criminals coming into my home. I once seriously considered getting a gun to protect myself from the police. If I need a weapon to continue living, I'll get one. And I'll use it. By George Carlin Survive Duty Home Talking Criminals

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. By Henri Frederic Amiel Powers Duty Desires

We all know our duty better than we discharge it. By John Randolph Duty Discharge

A soldier's first duty, his reason for being, is not to fight. Fighting is the final recourse for any civilized people. His duty is not even to preserve the peace; that is a police officer's job," Comdr. Stephen Michaels of the NAC military said by rote, remembering the many long nights of arguments and discussions that had brought this to his mind. "A soldier's first duty is simply to stand between his nation and any who might wish it harm. By Evan Currie Duty Fight Soldier Reason Comdr

All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty By Henry Clay Trumbull Duty World Simple

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty. By William Hazlitt Duty Pleasure Life Sense Discharging

O hard, when love and duty clash! By Alfred The Great Hard Clash Love Duty

Your parents and society use that word duty as a means of molding you, shaping you according to their particular idiosyncrasies, their habits of thought, their likes and dislikes, hoping thereby to guarantee their own safety. By Jiddu Krishnamurti Shaping Idiosyncrasies Thought Dislikes Hoping

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. By George Eliot Reward Duty Power Fulfill

What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God. By Thomas Watson God Man Obedience Duty Requireth

Family, Duty, Honor, By George R R Martin Duty Honor Family

Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can. By Cinda Williams Chima Duty Notforget Choose Love

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment. By Mason Cooley Life Boredom Breeds Pleasure Resentment

My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love. By Nando Parrado Human Day Love Duty Fill

To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God. By Ramana Maharshi God Perform Duty Greatest Service

Service is born out of love not duty. By Todd Stocker Service Duty Born Love

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest. By John Wilkins Interest Properly Duty

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding. By W. Somerset Maugham Duty Love Remember Dirty Understanding

There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love. By Debasish Mridha Love Greater Duty World Serve

I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things that have rambled and know not the way. By Marcus Aurelius Things Duty Life Reason Trouble

A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor. By Mario Puzo Alive Man Duty Honor Calls

It is our mission to forestall our duties By Alexandre Dumas Duties Mission Forestall

Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power. By Sathya Sai Baba Power Duty Pray Welfare World

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged. By Hosea Ballou Duty Labor Supreme Delight Love

Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions. By William Whewell Station Desires Obligations Man Belong

The first duty of life is to live. By Burt Lancaster Live Duty Life

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. By Gustave Flaubert Great Cherish Beautiful Duty Feel

But for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him. By Ulysses S. Grant Plain Soldier Duty Obey Orders

There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin." By Swami Vivekananda Injuring Sanskrit Mankind Countries Virtue

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. By Mark Twain Duty Duties Sake Uncomfortable Man

Duty to his wife. Duty to his children. Duty to work, to committees, to charities. Duty to Lynette. Duty to the other women. It was exhausting. It demanded stamina. At times he amazed even himself. By Richard Flanagan Duty Wife Lynette Children Work

To hallow'd dutyHere with a loyal and heroic heart,Bind we our lives. By Frances Sargent Osgood Lives Hallow Dutyhere Loyal Heroic

Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings. By Mata Amritanandamayi Highest Important Duty World Fellow

No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble. By Idries Shah Ignoble Duty Sight People

There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it. By Mary Abigail Dodge Generally Thing Duty People Meeting

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Odd Thomas By Dean Koontz Call Duty Whisper Thomas Regret

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be By Chauncey Wright Fearful Object Longneglected Duty

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thee Duty Lies Nearest

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that. By Bruce Lee Properly Duty

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering. By Albert Kesselring Obey Soldiering Soldier Duty

with most men duty means something unpleasant which the other fellow ought to do. By George Horace Lorimer Men Duty Unpleasant Fellow

Our duties - are the rights of others over us. By Friedrich Nietzsche Duties

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman Predominant Duty Find Work

Love can do much, but duty more. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Love Duty

There is one thing ... which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty. By Jane Austen Thing Sic Chuses Duty Man

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Freedom Duty Individual Acquires Substantive

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love. By George Macdonald Love Things Duty Stage Road

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race. By Andrew Carnegie Duty Content Race Horse Finishes

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. By Jose Marti Duty Happiness

You can always tell duty. It's what you don't want to doit's what you fight against inside you. Duty's when you realize how it'll hurt other people and you choose between that and what would be easiest for you. By Leslie Ford Duty Doit Fight Inside Realize

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us? By Jeremy Collier Nature Honorable Courage Execute Commands

We all have the duty to do good. By Pope Francis Good Duty

Duty is the best and wisest of all teachers. By Alan Bradley Duty Teachers Wisest

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person. By Jean-Paul Sartre Person Individual Duty Accountable Challenge

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two pointshis duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by. By Thomas Paine Gates Duty Man Wilderness Turnpike

The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped. By Robert Green Ingersoll Burden Duty Man Support Surplus

Duty without love is deplorable. By Sathya Sai Baba Duty Deplorable Love

Ambition, the soldier's virtue. By William Shakespeare Ambition Virtue Soldier

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need. By Miep Gies Helping Duty Human People