1. Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord. -Swami Sivananda
2. A man’s duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life. -Plato
3. Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety. -Tryon Edwards
4. Happiness is the natural flower of duty. -Phillips Brooks
5. Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. -Theodore W. Parker
6. The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another. -George Eliot
7. The reward of doing one duty is the power to do another. -Rabbi Ben Azai
8. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. -Thomas Jefferson
9. The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. -Cicero
10 No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. -James Allen
11. Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back. -Charles Kingsley
12. Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. -Henry David Thoreau
13. A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. -Bertrand Russell
14. Duty is what one expects from others. -Oscar Wilde
15. The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. -Kurt Cobain
16. Duty is the sublimest word in the language; you can never do more than your duty; you shall never wish to do less. -Robert E. Lee
17. A man who neglects his duty as a citizen is not entitled to his rights as a citizen. -Tiorio
18. Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. -Andrew Carnegie
19. Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free. -Mazo de la Roche
20. People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. -Indira Gandhi
21. If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
22. We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. -Robert Baden-Powell
23. Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. -John D. Rockefeller
24. It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers. -Jupiter Hammon
25. It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times in which we live. -John Legend
26. Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods. -Pierre Corneille
27. Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences. -George S. Patton Jr.
28. In action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty. -Immanuel Kant
29. Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. -Mencius
30. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. -George Eliot
31. When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. -Maxim Gorky
32. Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn’t melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to. -Claudia J. Edwards