(1168 quotes found)
“I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.”
Zachary Taylor
“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.”
Oscar Wilde
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Vincent van Gogh
“It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.”
Albert Einstein
“The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“I 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. Kennedy
“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”
Andrew Carnegie
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
Maximilien Francois Robespierre
