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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

» Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Lawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth]

Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

» Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman and short-story writer

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

» Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British logician and philosopher [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950]

Never step over one duty to perform another.

» English proverb (-)

The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

Love can do much, but duty more.

» Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist

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 (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist

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.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

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

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

Duty cannot exist without faith.

» Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author [Prime Minister of the UK from February 20, 1874 to April 21, 1880]

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

» George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

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 (1813-1887) American politician, social reformer

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

» Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist

But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.

» Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) American protestant preacher and author

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

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