Duty
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- No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theatre of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
- One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers in which idle people indulge themselves.
- Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
- Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.
- Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all.
- Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
- Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
- Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day.
- The achievement of a hard duty is a great abolisher of difficulties.
- The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another.
- There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
- There are two freedoms,--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
- There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.Robert Louis StevensonSourced
- There is no evil we cannot face or fly from, but the consciousness of duty disregarded.
- There is no mean work, save that which is sordidly selfish; no irreligious work, save that which is morally wrong; in every sphere of life the post of honor is the post of duty.
- There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
- There is not a moment without some duty.
- To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.
- We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
- We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with selecting those parts. Our simple duty is confined to playing them well.
- When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.Washington GladdenCommonly attributed
- When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
- Who escapes a duty avoids a gain.
- Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it can no longer hold itself erect.
- Worship is easier than obedience. Men are ever readier to serve the priest than to obey the prophet.
- You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose, or you can decide today to choose them.