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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. – A. C. Benson
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. – Albert Einstein
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government. – Thomas Paine
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong. – Albert Einstein
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. – Albert Einstein
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them. – Lois McMaster Bujold
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. – Benjamin Franklin
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. – George Washington
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery. – Maxim Gorky
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms. – Tench Coxe
Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. – Mark Twain
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less. – Robert E. Lee
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. – Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. – Woodrow Wilson
?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done. – Mahabharata
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. – Joseph F. Newton
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. – Joseph F. Newton
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. – Bertrand Russell
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty. – Anton Chekhov
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine. – Newell Dwight Hillis
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. – Sir Winston Churchill
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye. – Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action. – Albert Einstein

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