Beautiful Quote by John Updike

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

— Alexander Hamilton

I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

— Simo Hayha

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

— Sophocles

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

— Thomas Francis Meagher

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able…

— Robin Craig Clark

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time…

— Swami Vivekananda

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

— Prince Philip

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter…

— Elizabeth Gilbert