Duty Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

Duty is the demand of the hour.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

— Henry Edward Manning

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

— W. S. Gilbert

My duty is to obey orders.

— Stonewall Jackson

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

— Benjamin Constant

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

— Immanuel Kant

The highest duty is to respect authority

— Anonymous

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

— Roger L'Estrange

Duty is what one expects from others.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

— Margaret Fuller