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
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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's our duty in Congress to bring the voices of our communities to Washington. — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“My knowledge of this atrocity made it my duty to make something of it.” — Annelisa Christensen Copy Share Image
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge… — George Washington Copy Share Image
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Muhammad divided the world in two sectors. One he called Dar us Salam (House of Peace) and the other, Dar al Harb… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The Middletons and the Windsors might seem at first glance to be worlds apart. Kate certainly shows no sign of adopting the… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the… — Heinz Fischer Copy Share Image
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I think it is our duty towards the people of Lebanon to stabilize the country. — Saad Hariri Copy Share Image
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life. — Miep Gies Copy Share Image
“No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.” — Claire Delacroix Copy Share Image
This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal… — Dan Jones Copy Share Image
“Tell the truth. It's your duty to do so. It's up to them how they take in the information. Keep it real.” — J.R. Rim Copy Share Image
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The president-elect [Donald Trump] has a duty and obligation to abide by the law. And he's except from most all of these… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
A while ago I became convinced that our duty was to do the most we could for the long run aggregate utility… — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
“Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment). — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image