Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
May you have the courage and discipline today to do what is needed instead of simply what is convenient. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Satan wants to claim our souls and those of our children. He want our marriages and our families to fail. He wants… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
