The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny. — George Arnold Copy Share Image
We are confident that just like the American people can, the Senate can also multitask and they can do their constitutional duty… — Jen Psaki Copy Share Image
The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery,… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself,… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 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
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
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
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
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 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
