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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.

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Bertrand Russell

PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

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

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Norman Vincent Peale

AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

4.0 · 57 votes

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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.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

4.0 · 27 votes · 102 reads

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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.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

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Duty cannot exist without faith.

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Benjamin Disraeli

PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

4.7 · 51 votes

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

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WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

3.4 · 62 votes · 110 reads

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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

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ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

4.8 · 41 votes

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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.

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Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

4.8 · 25 votes

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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
PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century
4.6 · 63 votes · 108 reads
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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
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.3 · 49 votes · 187 reads
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Love can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.2 · 12 votes · 55 reads
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker
BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century
3.2 · 46 votes · 31 reads
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Never step over one duty to perform another.
English proverb
English
4.3 · 20 votes · 91 reads
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Rudyard Kipling
WriterBritish1865 · 19th century
4.4 · 49 votes · 154 reads
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.9 · 5 votes · 74 reads
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.4 · 30 votes · 133 reads
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.
Terence
PoetRoman
5.0 · 54 votes · 64 reads
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The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
WriterBritish1819 · 19th century
3.3 · 15 votes · 7 reads
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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
PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.0 · 29 votes · 186 reads
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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century
4.8 · 22 votes · 83 reads
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
4.7 · 51 votes · 67 reads
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Joseph Joubert
French1754 · 18th century
4.8 · 15 votes · 139 reads
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