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Letter "D" » Duty
«Duty is not collective; it is personal»
Author: Calvin Coolidge (President) | About: Duty | Keywords: collective
«Duty is ours; results are God's»
Author: John Quincy Adams (President) | About: Duty | Keywords: ours
«Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.»
Author: Robert E. Lee | About: Duty, Work | Keywords: sublime
«Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.»
«'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu | About: Duty, Power, Richness | Keywords: One Power
«[I kiss the soil] as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.»
«Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | About: Duty, Praise | Keywords: Duties of, not due, praising
«Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Duty | Keywords: apt, conscientious
«Do your duty today and repent tomorrow»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Duty | Keywords: repent
«Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Duty

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