Duty Quote by Anand Neelakantan

“Animals' pain and pleasure are akin to yours and mine, and their will to live is just as strong.”

— Anonymous

“Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is…

— Schopenhauer Arthur

“If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable. One would…

— Victor Hugo

“Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to do as…

— Astrid Knowles

“A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight.”

— George Gritter

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the…

— Hosea Ballou

“This is the sum of duty. Do not unto others that which would cause you pain if done to you.”

— Mahabharata 5 1517 from the Vedic tradition of India circa 3000 BC

“Whatever I may do to serve you will be prompted solely from selfish motives, since it gives me more pleasure to serve you than…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Duty measures the distance between animal and the divine.”

— R. Scott Bakker

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

— Ovid

“Duty is an act of obedience stemming from respect, whilst willing desire is an act of freedom. To do something out of obedience is…

— Jill Thrussell