"'My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' he muttered to himself, 'and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins." - Bhagavad Gita

"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required." - BIBLE Luke 12:48

"Do your duty, and leave the rest to the gods." - PIERRE CORNEILLE, Horace

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low,
Thou must
The youth replies,
I can"
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Voluntaries

"A Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical." - JOHN FOWLES, The Magus

"What, then, is your duty? What the day demands." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Proverbs in Prose

"I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty."
- ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER, Beauty and Duty

"O Duty,
Why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a cutie?
Why glitter thy spectacles so ominously?
Why art thou clad so abominously?"
- OGDEN NASH, Kind of an Ode to Duty

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." - JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., speech (1941)