It is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. Samuel Butler Duty You May Also Like Duty comes first. By Anoymous Duty Anytime you give up pleasure for duty, you’re a stronger person. By Anoymous Duty, Pleasure That dull, laden, soul-depressing sensation known as the sense of duty. By O. Henry Duty If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences. By Lord Milner Duty Duty consists largely of pretending that the trivial is critical. By John Fowles Duty Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. By Mark Twain Duty You May Also Like from Samuel Butler Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. By Samuel Butler Deception, Funny, Lies The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on thick and exactly in the right places. By Samuel Butler Funny, Praise All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. By Samuel Butler Funny, Growth, Income, Motivational, Potential Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. By Samuel Butler Spring, Youth All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. By Samuel Butler Enjoy life, Happy, Life, Priorities As there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, so also there is but one from the ridiculous to the sublime. By Samuel Butler Sublime
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences. By Lord Milner Duty
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. By Mark Twain Duty
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. By Samuel Butler Deception, Funny, Lies
The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on thick and exactly in the right places. By Samuel Butler Funny, Praise
All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. By Samuel Butler Funny, Growth, Income, Motivational, Potential
All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. By Samuel Butler Enjoy life, Happy, Life, Priorities
As there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, so also there is but one from the ridiculous to the sublime. By Samuel Butler Sublime