Duty Quote by Hjalmar Söderberg

“He believed so strongly in things: justice and fair play and hard work and a world where right just had to be right. Not…

— Fredrik Backman

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

— Oscar Wilde

“He had been in the legal profession long enough to know that human behavior was complicated and unpredictable and that justice always had to…

— Thrity Umrigar

“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

“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In his anxiety to be just to others he was often prepared to be unjust to himself. He was always ready to sacrifice his…

— Aldous Huxley

“He had believed the life of an officer was easy, full of undeserved privilege and comfort. He had not seen the responsibility that the…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“There are a thousand circumstances in which a man may be justified in a particular course of action, and that course yet may be…

— James Malcolm Rymer

“But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of…

— Stephen King

“You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the…

— Elizabeth Noble

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“He was in control of every aspect of his profession and he deferred to no one. In his private life, however, he was clueless.”

— Robert Bryndza