Top 80 Duty Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

— Helen Keller

52. “Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.”

— Harry S. Truman

53. “If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

54. “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”

— John Adams

55. “Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.”

— Margaret Chase Smith

56. “If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, ‘I awake to do the work of a man.’”

— Marcus Aurelius

57. “Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

58. “You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”

— Charles Mackay

59. “Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!”

— Swami Vivekananda

60. “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

61. “In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”

— Saint Augustine

62. “You’ll never go wrong in doing what is right.”

— Robin S. Sharma

63. “The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

64. “It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”

— Molière

65. “Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.”

— Orrin Woodward

66. “The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.”

— Immanuel Kant

67. “I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.”

— A.W. Tozer

68. “When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.”

— John Maxwell Edmonds

69. “You have one business on earth – to save souls.”

— John Wesley

70. “Duty is ours, results are God’s.”

— John Quincy Adams

71. “Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.”

— John Hoeven

72. “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

— John Stuart Mill

73. “Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; ’tis God’s gift.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

74. “Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.”

— Nelson Mandela

75. “Man’s duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.”

— Immanuel Kant

76. “The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

77. “Duty is the essence of manhood.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

78. “You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.”

— Epictetus

79. “Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”

— John D. Rockefeller

80. “The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”

— Aldous Huxley