A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do… — William Carey Copy Share Image
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
It's not Neom's duty to create jobs for Saudis. Neom's duty is to be a world hub for everyone in the whole… — Mohammad bin Salman Copy Share Image
“When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Just working on a character and his mannerisms, but not looking the part, is not my thing. It is your duty as… — Gautam Rode Copy Share Image
Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
I've always said the first duty of life is to live it, and I do believe that. And we delude ourselves if… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it?… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image