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Duty Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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…
- Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
- The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that…
- Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian,…
- I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
- Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of…
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
- And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely…
- You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each…
- Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the…
- A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only…
- I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of…
- Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But…
- The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
More Duty Quotes
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
- Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss… — Charles Babbage
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in… — John Banville
- We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great… — Roy Barnes
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry
- An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun
- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
- Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a… — Gary Bauer
- Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a… — Simone de Beauvoir