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
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.George Carlin
I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.J.R.R. Tolkien
Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.Aga Khan III
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.Nelson Mandela
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.William Manchester
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.Henry Kissinger
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt
We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems.Meena Harris
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.John D. Rockefeller
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.Blaise Pascal
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.John Keegan
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.Douglas MacArthur
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The conservative vision regards politics more as a matter of gratitude than entitlement - duty over rights. We have inherited so much: a wonderful country, a culture of freedom and abundance, even our life itself, earned through no effort of our own but bequeathed as a gift from our forefathers.Michael J. Knowles
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.John Morley
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Buddha
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.Henry David Thoreau
The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.Simone de Beauvoir