Difficult task Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

“I was afraid of being annihilated on account of saying no: those who refuse to fulfill their duties lose their right to exist.”

— Yoko Tawada

“Do not disturb yourself with vain curiosity concerning the affairs of others, nor how they conduct themselves, unless your position makes it your duty…

— Various

“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.”

— Bhagavad Gita

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient…

— Bertrand Russell

“Doing your duty is having no sense of guilt about what you are doing.”

— Ru

“This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one,…

— Victor Hugo

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me…

— Winston Churchill

“...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and…

— Immanuel Kant

“the applicant be possessed of a dignity in keeping with his position.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Untamed by your endeavors Saturated from your unrequited notions Tired of your futile insinuation Determined to prevail I no longer grant you the honor…

— Avha

“Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it’s the result of a deliberate series of…

— Steve Aylett

“Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism and make us feel that the quality…

— George Eliot