It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Thomas Szasz

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

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Helen Rowland

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
Jacques Barzun

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Ellen Key

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
Ibrahim Rugova

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
William Ellery Channing

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
Martin Scorsese

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E. Gladstone

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
Clara Zetkin

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
Joseph Conrad