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Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?
— Dag Hammarskjold
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
— Ambrose Bierce
...the greatest gift one human can give to another is heartfelt time, where true togetherness is born from desire versus duty.
— Tony Dincau
All good men are cleaved by the struggle between duty and desire
— Melissa McPhail
without desire, there is only duty.
— Amy Harmon
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
— Mortimer J. Adler
If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.
— Julian Barnes
A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight.
— George Gritter
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
— William Watson Purkey
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
— Theodore Parker
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
— William R. Alger
90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials.
— Auliq Ice
Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful.
— Anthony Doerr
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
— Jean Giraudoux
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel