“Consult duty not events.”
“Rank imposes obligation.”
Noblesse oblige
“Duty cannot exist without faith.”
“Love can do much, but duty more.”
“What is possible is our highest duty.”
“I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.”
“Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.”
“Never step over one duty to perform another.”
“Where there are no rights, there are no duties.”
“The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.”
“The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.”
“The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.”
“Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.”
“No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.”
“There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.”
“Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.”
“Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”
“Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”
“Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.”
“Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.”
“I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.”
“Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.”
“But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.”
“Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.”
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”
“Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.”
“The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.”
“The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.”
“Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.”