Quotes and Sayings

“I think 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 quotes

“Do your duty today and repent tomorrow” ~ Mark Twain

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.” ~ Robert E. Lee

“It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty.” ~James H. Aughey

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.” ~ Samuel Adams

“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” ~ Buddha

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.” ~George Eliot

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

Another duty quote by George Bernard Shaw, “When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” ~ Albert Einstein