Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting. — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“When a duty is assigned to you, do your best to deliver at the right time and with right results.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
The duty of the real beauty in a person is to make him stand true to himself in all odd and even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The prayers you perform, the duties you do, the charity and love you give is equal to just one drop. But if… — Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Copy Share Image
It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
When I came to Washington, I believed that I had one duty, one purpose. I was elected to serve my district, my… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
"None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is not so much what we get out of life as what we put into it that determines how large our… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's talking about,… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do… — Ann Jillian Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out. — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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