Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort
- Ariel NishriOur blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties
- Anna JamesonThe highest duty is to respect authority
- Ashley CookWe have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men
- George OrwellDuty 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. LeeDo your duty today and repent tomorrow
- Mark TwainOur business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
- Robert Louis StevensonIt is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children
- African ProverbWhenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
- Antonie van LeeuwenhoekOur duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
- John RuskinAbasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
- Jose Ortega y GassetI 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
- PlatoI looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
- Rose F. KennedyIt is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to strengthen the weak by teaching them their rights.
- Subrahmanya C. Bharati