Bhagavad Gita on Duty

BG 2.47

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।

Your right is only to work, but not to its results; do not let the results of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.

BG 3.8

नियतं कुरु कर्म त्वं कर्म ज्यायो ह्यकर्मणः।

Perform your bounden duty, for action is superior to inaction, and even the maintenance of the body would not be possible for you through inaction.

BG 3.30

मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा।

Renouncing all actions in Me, with the mind centered on the Self, free from hope and egoism, and from mental fever, fight thou.

BG 3.35

श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्।

Better is one's own duty, though devoid of merit, than the duty of another well discharged. Better is death in one's own duty; the duty of another is fraught with fear.

BG 18.14

अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम्।विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम्

The body, the doer, the various senses, the different functions of various kinds, and the presiding deity—the fifth.

BG 18.47

श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्।स्वभावनियतं कर्म कुर्वन्नाप्नोति किल्बिषम्

Better is one's own duty, even if it is destitute of merits, than the duty of another well performed. He who does the duty ordained by his own nature incurs no sin.