Best Duty Proverbs

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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. — Theodore Parker
The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave,… — Rajneesh
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. — William Faulkner
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. — Charles Baudelaire
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our… — Samuel Johnson
It is our first duty to serve society. — Samuel Johnson
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America.… — George W. Bush
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. — Joseph Joubert
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. — Mignon McLaughlin
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural… — Charles Spurgeon
Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well. — John Templeton
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. — William E. Gladstone
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Never mind your happiness; do your duty. — Will Durant
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe… — Winston Churchill
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best… — Learned Hand
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. — Robert Breault
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. — William Butler Yeats
What then is your duty? What the day demands. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty. — Napoleon Bonaparte
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty. — Plautus

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