Duty Quote by Edith Wharton

Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Duty is what one expects from others.

— Oscar Wilde

Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge…

— Mother Teresa

I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could.

— Simo Hayha

“One's own duty, though devoid of merit, is preferable to the duty of another well performed. Even death in the performance of one's own…

— Gita Press

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may…

— Anonymous

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks…

— George Eliot

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

— John Eisenhower

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the…

— Mark Twain

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

— Henry David Thoreau

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope…

— John Banville

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

— Sophie Swetchine