(1168 quotes found)
“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
“Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.”
Voltaire
“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour”
Winston Churchill
“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
George Orwell
“Duty is ours; results are God's”
John Quincy Adams
“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
Stephen King
“Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.”
