Duty Quote by Sophie Swetchine

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the…

— Mark Twain

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

— Joseph Joubert

We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is…

— Charles Murray

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.

— John Addison

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

— Alexandre Vinet

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

— Marlene Dietrich

There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We all have the duty to do good.

— Pope Francis

Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.

— Percy Dearmer