Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die. — Shane Barbi Copy Share Image
You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James… — David L. Beck Copy Share Image
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin. — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
“The High Sheikh invoked a few passages from the Greater Book, explaining that if a believer were to be struck by a… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
I believe Washington should be a more active participant focusing on the issue of why corporate shareholders and mutual fund shareholders are… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting,… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit. — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference… — John Milton Copy Share Image
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
An attorney general's duty is to render her opinion and honest advice; she cannot set herself up as a judge overruling the… — William Barr Copy Share Image
Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith. — Stephen Samuel Wise Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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