Top 80 Duty Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Morality Quotes, Deep Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

2. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

— Nathan Hale

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, History Quotes, Country Quotes

3. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Achievement Quotes

4. “Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain.”

— Robert Jordan

5. “Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.”

— Pat Summitt

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes, Sports Quotes

6. “Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Values Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Quotes About Work, Virtue Quotes

7. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Friday Quotes for Work

8. “Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Impact Quotes, Influence Quotes

9. “As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Ambition Quotes, Powerful Quotes

10. “Your family is depending on you. There’s no better reason to bring your A-game all the time.”

— Grant Cardone

Also featured in: Ambition Quotes, Quotes About Work, Determination Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

11. “Work first, and then rest.”

— John Ruskin

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Work Ethic Quotes, Work Hard Quotes, Firsts Quotes

12. “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes, Military Quotes, History Quotes

13. “True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.”

— John Wayne

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Responsibility Quotes

14. “With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Also featured in: Good Morning Motivational Quotes

15. “The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.”

— James Hudson Taylor

Also featured in: Discipleship Quotes

16. “Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Smart Quotes

17. “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

18. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Truth Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

19. “Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes, Military Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Hero Quotes

20. “Honor your commitments with integrity.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Virtue Quotes

21. “Beneficence is a duty.”

— Immanuel Kant

Also featured in: Morality Quotes

22. “You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.”

— Bhagavad Gita

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Quotes About Acting

23. “Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don’t want to do it.”

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Work Hard Quotes

24. “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Military Quotes, Boss Quotes, Government Quotes

25. “Always do more than is required of you.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Military Quotes, Expectations Quotes

26. “Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don’t want to do it.”

— David Halberstam

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Dedication Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Work Hard Quotes

27. “God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.”

— John Henry Newman

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Service Quotes, Dedication Quotes

28. “The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Morality Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

29. “He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men

30. “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Resilience Quotes

31. “Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.”

— Umar

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Time Management Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

32. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Responsibility Quotes

33. “There’s no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.”

— Condoleezza Rice

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Dedication Quotes

34. “Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”

— Julius Evola

35. “I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Impact Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Dedication Quotes

36. “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.”

— J. C. Watts

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Actions Speak Louder Than Words Quotes

37. “Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.”

— Bobby Knight

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Competition Quotes, Boss Quotes

38. “God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Faith Quotes, Discipleship Quotes

39. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Reputation Quotes

40. “I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Willpower Quotes, Efficiency Quotes, Consistency Quotes

41. “Don’t make excuses, just get it done!”

— Suzanne Yoculan

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Boss Quotes, Monday Quotes

42. “I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Fighting Quotes

43. “Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Humanism Quotes, Engagement Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

44. “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Impact Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Engagement Quotes

45. “If a man does his best, what else is there?”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes, Witty Quotes

46. “Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing.”

— Bryan Stevenson

Also featured in: Conscience Quotes

47. “Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Time Management Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

48. “Why can I not fight for my country too?”

— Deborah Sampson

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Warrior Quotes

49. “Leave this world a little better than you found it.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Service Quotes, Legacy Quotes

50. “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Legacy Quotes