Quotes by Duty I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man. Janusz Korczak duty men world As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger. Jay Griffiths messengers duty Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? Jane Austen duty acceptance heart Love is the outlaw's duty. Jayne Anne Phillips outlaw duty love-is You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. Jean Giraudoux duty law lying It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. Jean de la Bruyere ingratitude neglect duty Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. Jean de la Bruyere obliged duty grain It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires. Jefferson Davis virtue duty children I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world. Jeanette Winterson duty political world Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes. Jenkin Lloyd Jones guides duty stars A sense of duty imprisons you. Jenny Holzer duty ambition What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into? Jeremiah Burroughs duty circumstances One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it. Joan Sutherland talent given duty Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning. John Banville keep-trying duty trying My duty is clear and at all costs will be done. John Burns cost duty done The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. John Adams cardinals duty defense He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. Johann Kaspar Lavater sacrifice pleasure duty The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection. John Dod obedience duty wife Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life. John Flavel credit duty secret Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good. John Fowles duty evil pot «678910111213141516»