The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
“There are not many people who work according to the law of virtue, but this small minority is the pride of mankind… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Mike Hall was my old friend and, more important, the finest soldier I'd ever known. After over 30 years of service and… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws,… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty… — Larry Bakersfield Copy Share Image
I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Andreas Osiander Copy Share Image
Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
