This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon… — Saint Boniface Copy Share Image
The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought:… — Ashraf Dehghani Copy Share Image
But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
It's always important to draw a line somewhere in a respectful way where you're still approachable, you're still there for the people… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm;… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Think about this some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master… One of the duties of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My observation is that my dealings with the president on some of the most important issues that the president Donald Trump has… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church,… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of… — Solomon Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates… — James M. Paramore Copy Share Image
“As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Duty is an act of obedience stemming from respect, whilst willing desire is an act of freedom. To do something out of… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice.… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I don't think they [Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler] quarreled during the war, he was so completely absorbed in his duties that… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Copy Share Image
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image