The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is… — Mooji Copy Share Image
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The Girl Scout’s motto is also mine. I fill my life with worthwhile deeds such as — well, never mind what. My… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is… — Bill Belichick Copy Share Image
I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The first duty of a leader is optimism. How does your subordinate feel after meeting with you? Does he feel uplifted? If… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Your fear is, that if you marry Adèle, you will love her. If you have children, you will love them more than… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The greatest duty of mankind lies in the proper uprearing of our children. The fact is recognized, but is the duty fulfilled?… — M. D George F. Butler Copy Share Image
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young… — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you're mayor, it's your duty to support all the groups within the city. — Lauren Ash Copy Share Image
If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We have a duty to fight ISIS; air operations alone will not defeat ISIS. — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral. — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see The curved line… — William McCall Copy Share Image
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation. — Ayad Allawi Copy Share Image
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
