Duty

QUOTES

Ours not to reason why, Ours but to do and die.
 Alfred Lord Tennyson
 Charge of the Light Brigade,

Duty is heavy as a mountain but death is lighter than a feather.
 Japanese proverb
 

Better one's own duty, though imperfect, Than another's duty well performed.
 Bhagavad-Gita
 

I know this - a man got to do what he got to do.
 John Steinbeck
 Grapes of Wrath, 1939

Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
 John DRockefeller
 

Do the work that's nearest, though it's dull at whiles.
 CharlesKingsley
 1856

O Lord thou knowest how busy I must this day be. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
 Jacob Astley
 before battle, 1642

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - and found that life was duty.
 Helen Sturgis Hooper
 

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
 G B Shaw
 Caesar , 1901

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