Duty Quote by Caroline, Princess of Hanover

“And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the external law,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Guilt is an outward expression of self degradation. It is acceptance of one’s culpability, indiscretion, liability, sin, dereliction, and harm without resolving the crime,…

— Deborah Bravandt

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns…

— Edward Gibbon

But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated…

— Charles Dickens

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

— Joanna Lumley

“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and it answers…

— Arnold Bennett

On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it…

— Ross Douthat

I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. When I chose to…

— Chelsea Manning

“There is a distinct difference between the ability to create life and the innate need to protect it; to cherish it. The life you've…

— Jamie McGuire

“Go ahead—read your Bible through in a year from a sense of duty. Pray for hours each day. Go to church every time the…

— David Wilkerson

“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or time would…

— Jane Austen

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts;…

— Joseph Addison

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

— James Russell Lowell

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch