Advantage Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

— William Godwin

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

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 that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general…

— William Godwin

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

— John Fowles

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

— Ambrose Bierce

Necessity is stronger than duty.

— Seneca the Younger

To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty…

— Terry Goodkind