Alexandre Vinet Quotes

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

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

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.