The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all. — Ovid Copy Share Image
if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty. — Agatha Christie 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 duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable. — Michael Ramsey Copy Share Image
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I feel, as artists, our duty is to keep working and keep making whatever we believe in. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. — Clarence Budington Kelland Copy Share Image
Our prime duty towards ourself and others is to immediately redirect our negative thoughts to a positive, empowering affirmation. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you have a platform, you have a responsibility and it is our duty to use ours in Daddy's name, because I… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
I am saying that out of a spirit of appreciation and gratitude, and a sense of duty, you ought to make whatever… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They would make the 'Church ' their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Obi loved her. But duty was duty. It was as simple as that. She ought to understand. Duty was often stronger than… — Chika Unigwe Copy Share Image
Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire? — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening. — Charlie Melancon Copy Share Image
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. — George Peele Copy Share Image
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
It's our duty in Congress to bring the voices of our communities to Washington. — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
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