In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education. — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
“I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed… — Charlie Siem Copy Share Image
I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
If two people have a couple of kids, somebody does have to take care of the kids. Somebody does have to cook… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life. — Rebecca Lee Crumpler Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If your government isn't protecting you and the future of your kids, you have a duty to rebel, and a right to… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“...it is always wise to do one's duty, however unpleasant that duty may seem to be." -Ozma” — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
It is my right and my duty as a politician to speak about the problems in our country. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My duty is to serve and protect the twelfth prince of Xing.-Lan Fan to Ling” — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society. — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop. — Andy Gray Copy Share Image
Life is not about what I have done, what I should have done, what I could have done, it is about what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image