For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing… — Michel de Montaigne 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
There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well. — Clovis Chappell Copy Share Image
My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own. — David Weber Copy Share Image
“Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to… — Anna Bartlett Warner Copy Share Image
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of… — Susa Young Gates Copy Share Image
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
I'm only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. - Mufasa — The Lion King Copy Share Image
Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man of the Night's Watch lives his life for the realm. Not for a king, nor a lord, nor the honor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The constitution of most of the states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand... — Anonymous Copy Share Image