We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Ambrose Bierce

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Elie Wiesel

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
Rose Kennedy

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Victor Hugo

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Jack Kevorkian