I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well… — Martin Van Buren 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
If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised? — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I show up on the injury report as much as the statsheet, but if I’m healthy, I’m going to be a late-round… — Ahmad Bradshaw Copy Share Image
It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men,… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer — Thomas Carlyle 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
I learned about injustice young. That I had a duty to not be complicit, to not turn the other way. — Ashley Biden Copy Share Image
Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault 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
For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
