Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
We all have the duty to do good.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.