Duty Quote by Tryon Edwards

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with…

— Tryon Edwards

Sometimes, the shadow comes over me and then, inside, we are two, outside, illusion...

— Mariana Fulger

“He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.”

— Herta Müller

“But it is better to follow even the shadow of the best than to remain content with the worst.”

— Henry Van Dyke

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

— Anonymous

Follow a shadow, it still flies you.

— Ben Jonson

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

— Gautama Buddha

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she…

— Ben Jonson

To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment --…

— William Ellery Channing

“I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as…

— John Lubbock

“By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me,…

— Anne Brontë

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt