“No eulogy is due to a man who simply does his duty and nothing more.” — St. Augustine Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Mankind has a divine duty, to be stewardship of the natural resources.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Tonight he would do anything in the world for her. Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart. — Ron Kovic Copy Share Image
To be captain is an extended duty that you have to be ready to do properly. — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know,… — Lisa See 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
Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My observation is that my dealings with the president on some of the most important issues that the president Donald Trump has… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. — George Santayana Copy Share Image