The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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.
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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.
When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.
Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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