"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human."
— Ben Stein

"On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty To God and my country"
— Boy Scouts of America

"Are you off duty?" -Guy
"This isn't a cab." -Nick
"Are you off duty?" -Guy
"This isn't a cab, my friend, I promise you." -Nick"
— Nick and Norah's Infinate Playlist

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
— G.K.Chesterson

"Duty is what one expects from others. "
— Oscar Wilde

"There is but one path of safety to the Latter-day Saints, and that is the path of duty. It is not testimony, it is not marvelous manifestations, it is not knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true, . . . it is not actually knowing that the Savior is the Redeemer, and that Joseph Smith was His prophet, that will save you and me, but it is the keeping of the commandments of God, the living the life of a Latter-day Saint.
[Heber J. Grant, Improvement Era, November 1936, p. 659] Quoted in “Waiting Upon the Lord” By Henry B. Eyring, BYU Speeches, 30 Sept 1990"
— Heber J. Grant

"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."
— Helen Keller (The Story of My Life)

"Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul."
— Tryon Edwards

"The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job."
— Pat Barker (Regeneration)

"Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back."
— Charles Kingsley

"If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable. One would say that it punishes you for comprehending it; but no, it rewards you for it; for it puts you into a hell where you feel God at your side."
— Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)

"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
— Immanuel Kant

"If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment."
— George Eliot