"The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way."

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

"Simple duty hath no place for fear."

"Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory."

"Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away."

"And I read the moral—A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth."

"Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and be just."

"Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread."

"The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest."

"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."

"Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see The curved line ever follow thee."

"Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For the day never comes when it'll du To kick on dooty like a worn-out shoe."

"Take up the White Man's burden."

"I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:— Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?"

"Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still."

"Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?"

"Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages."

"In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty."

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can."

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

"And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was service; humblest service done By willing and discerning souls was glory."

"Not aw'd to duty by superior sway."

"Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed."

"To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me."

"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."

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

"The primal duties shine aloft, like stars: The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers."

"Evangelical Christianity conspires with technical and economic rationalism. In the end, they both require a commitment to "duty" that masks unspeakable violence and injustice."

"A woman for duty, A boy for pleasure, But a melon for ecstasy."

"Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that!"

"I thought the remnant of mine age Should have been cherish'd by her child-like duty."

"I do perceive here a divided duty."

"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."

"L'État comprime et la loi triche L'impôt saigne le malheureux Nul devoir ne s'impose au riche Le droit du pauvre est un mot creux C'est assez, languir en tutelle L'égalité veut d'autres lois Pas de droits sans devoirs dit-elle Égaux, pas de devoirs sans droits"

""What moves the Greek warrior to deeds of heroism," Kitto comments, "is not a sense of duty as we understand it... duty towards others: it is rather duty towards himself. He strives after that which we translate 'virtue' but is in Greek areté, 'excellence' — we shall have much to say about areté. It runs through Greek life." There, Phædrus thinks, is a definition of Quality that had existed a thousand years before the dialecticians ever thought to put it to word-traps. Anyone who cannot understand this meaning without logical definiens and definendum and differentia is either lying or so out of touch with the common lot of humanity as to be unworthy of receiving any reply whatsoever."

"It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one’s neighbor."

"Consider the way “moral man” … is veiled behind moral formulas and concepts of decency — the way our actions are benevolently concealed by the concepts of duty, virtue, sense of community, honorableness, self-denial. … I am not suggesting that all this is meant to mask human malice and villainy, the wild animal in us; my idea is, on the contrary, that it is precisely as tame animals that we are a shameful sight and in need of the moral disguise."

"“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.”"

"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.”"

"England expects every Man will do his Duty."

"Left that command Sole daughter of his voice."

"How can I do my duty if I do not know where it lies?"

""Duty, Honor, Country" — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn."

"Duty! Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating, but requirest submission, and yet seekest not to move the will by threatening aught that would arouse natural aversion or terror, but merely holdest forth a law which of itself finds entrance into the mind, and yet gains reluctant reverence (though not always obedience), a law before which all inclinations are dumb, even though they secretly counter-work it; what origin is there worthy of thee, and where is to be found the root of thy noble descent which proudly rejects all kindred with the inclinations; a root to be derived from which is the indispensable condition of the only worth which men can give themselves?"

"Jesus ... combines all duties (1) in one universal rule (which includes within itself both the inner and the outer moral relations of men), namely: Perform your duty for no motive other than unconditioned esteem for duty itself, i.e., love God (the Legislator of all duties) above all else; and (2) in a particular rule, that, namely, which concerns man’s external relation to other men as universal duty: Love every one as yourself, i.e., further his welfare from good-will that is immediate and not derived from motives of self-advantage. These commands are not mere laws of virtue but precepts of holiness which we ought to pursue, and the very pursuit of them is called virtue."

"Duty is weightier than a mountain, while death is lighter than a feather."

"If inequalities stare us in the face the essential equality too is not to be missed. Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have. And since every right carries with it a corresponding duty and the corresponding remedy for resisting any attack upon it, it is merely a matter of finding out the corresponding duties and remedies to vindicate the elementary fundamental equality."

"Bravery cannot be taught, but duty can."

"When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more."