676 Quotes About Duty

The only thing unqualifiedly good in this world is a good will - the will to follow the moral law, regardless of profit or loss for ourselves.Never mind your happiness; do your duty."Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."Let us seek the happiness in others; but for ourselves, perfection - whether it bring us happiness or pain.

The whole duty of our existence is fear God.

… reason told me that wherever we are thrown on earth, no matter how false our position, no matter how debased those beings who surround us, our duty is to work to combat evil and allow good to triumph.

Margot Shears says to Paddy - on lawyers crossing the line: "You really think I would believe you did those things in furtherance of your duty to your client? Paddy, Paddy, Paddy. Shame on you. Nobody sins for somebody else.

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious ornament of reward or self-love. How much she then eclipses everything else that appears charming to the affections, every one may readily perceive with the least exertion of his reason, if it be not wholly spoiled for abstraction.

Non servirò ciò in cui non credo più, si chiami questo la casa, la patria o la Chiesa: e tenterò di esprimere me stesso in un qualunque modo di vita o di arte quanto più potrò liberamente e integralmente, adoperando per difendermi le sole armi che mi concedo di usare: il silenzio, l'esilio e l'astuzia.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Without sensuality, a relationship is merely a matter of duty.