“I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
Duty Quotes
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“I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.”
“When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.”
“When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: India of My Dreams
“Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: India of My Dreams
“Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.”
Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.”
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: Young India: 1919-1922
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: India of My Dreams
“I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.”
Source: Young India, 1927-1928
Source: India of My Dreams
“The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.”
Source: Hind Swaraj
“A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.”
“Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.”
Source: Hind Swaraj
Source: Collected Works
“The true source of rights is duty.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.”
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: India of My Dreams
“He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.”
Source: The Indian States' Problem
“You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.”
Source: Collected Works
“No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.”
Source: Collected Works
“If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.”
Source: From Yeravda Mandir: Ashram Observances
Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869