| "The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." »Alexis Carrel |
| "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 |
| "I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." »Lord Acton |
| "It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike." »J. K. Rowling |
| "Practice no vice because it's trivial... neglect no virtue because it's so." »Chinese Proverb |
| "When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live." »Samuel Johnson |
| "The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| "Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect." »James D. Bryden |
| "It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application." »Samuel Smiles |
| "If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "I expect to pass through this world but once any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." »Stephan Grellet |
| "The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand |
| "If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that." »Bruce Lee |
| "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." »Abbie Hoffman |
| "I know of only one duty, and that is to love." »Albert Camus |
| "I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "The first duty of love is to listen." »Paul Tillich |
| "How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness." »Cicero |
| "The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another." »George Eliot |
| "England expects that every man will do his duty." »Lord Nelson |
| "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 |
| "What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be" »Chauncey Wright |
| "...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth." »Cicero |
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