Quotes About Duty

One has two duties—to be worried and not to be worried.

— E. M. Forster

If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.

— Alfred Milner

That dull, laden, soul-depressing sensation known as the sense of duty.

— O. Henry

Duty consists largely of pretending that the trivial is critical.

— John Fowles

A sense of duty is moral glue, constantly subject to stress.

— William Safire

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

— Eric Hoffer

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

— Helen Keller

It is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

— Samuel Butler

What’s a man’s first duty?   The answer’s brief: to be himself.

— Henrik Ibsen

Duty is what one expects from others.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— George Bernard Shaw

The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on earth.

— Wilfred Grenfell

Make it a point to 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

Let us have faith that right makes right, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

— Abraham Lincoln