Action Quote by George Eliot

“Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If…

— C.S. Lewis

“This illusion of work is fatal. It wastes your time, makes you think that you’re doing something worthy when you’re not, and doesn’t do…

— Vishal Ostwal

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great…

— Helen Keller

“Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. What people think and believe and plan are all very…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“With an effort, the kind you use when confronting an unpleasant duty,”

— Mark Lawrence

“It is not even in extraordinary situations, where all eyes are upon us, where all our energy is aroused, and all our vigilance is…

— Albert Pike

“There are not many people who work according to the law of virtue, but this small minority is the pride of mankind and every…

— Alija Izetbegović

Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

“Duty is doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons, without regard to the cost to one’s self.”

— Angelo Dirks

“Duty is an act of obedience stemming from respect, whilst willing desire is an act of freedom. To do something out of obedience is…

— Jill Thrussell

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman