Life Quotes... Duty

“Let us have faith that right makes right, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
                                                Abraham Lincoln

“If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.”
                                                Alfred Milner

“One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.”
                                                E. M. Forster

“The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.”
                                                Eric Hoffer

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
                                                Helen Keller

“What’s a man’s first duty?   The answer’s brief: to be himself.”
                                                Henrik Ibsen

“Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do.  This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”
                                                Mark Twain

“It is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.”
                                                Samuel Butler

“The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on earth.”
                                                Wilfred Grenfell

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