Duty Quote by Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Sophie Swetchine

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

— Eckhart Tolle

Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

— Stephen Covey

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

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

— Jean de la Bruyere

When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.

— Radhanath Swami

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been…

— Jordan Peterson

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this…

— Thomas Jefferson