My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine

Love can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
Charlie Sheen

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot