I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said, “at least for me.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Never let your sense of duty, loyalty, or obligation get in the way of doing what's right. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“… if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
“But this sense of duty and virtue involved a complicated calculation about your positive effect on the White House versus its negative… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently.… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
We need a pope to usher in a new era of inclusion, the end of a sinful clericalism, and a strong sense… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the "why" are usually astute, high- performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“He was righteous. He had a sense of duty, of what was right and wrong in the world, and I don't mean… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers, by that sense of duty which can alone suffice.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake,… — Henry Thomas Hamblin Copy Share Image
“In all aspects of shipboard life, “guides, tables, reports, logs, books, inspection provisions and other methods of supervision were developed, mostly in… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon 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
“When a job is undertaken from necessity, or from a grim sense of disagreeable duty, the worker is self-consciously aware of the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
