More quotations tagged with “duty”
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
—Joseph F. Newton
Life is not so important as the duties of life.
—John Randolph
Duty is ours, results are God's.
—John Quincy Adams
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau