If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility. — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it,… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Forgive what may seem cut speech if I say that, in my judgment, a President with a just sense of duty has… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Dad never missed a day of work, regardless of how late he had been out the night before. The intensity of Dad’s… — Melanie Hoffert Copy Share Image
One of the greatest benefits to come out of 'Lean In' was convincing women to help and support other women - not… — Nell Scovell 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
The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“No one ever stepped forward to protect me, Inspector. I wonder why I should feel any driving sense of duty to protect… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family,… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Melanie’s father had been an Army colonel who instilled in her a sense of duty as well as a sense of individuality.… — Tom Clancy 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
“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he s not he s a liar. Some men are cowards… — George S. Patton Jr Copy Share Image
Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Thomas Hobbes said that man is a wolve for anothe one. It seems to me that this became the basic foundation ideology… — Steinar Stjernø Copy Share Image
“I warned you; I warned you I was the Senses Taker," sneered the Senses Taker. "I help people find what they're not… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Worldly morality and love for Krishna. (18/43 Mall Road, Kanpur, December 1, 1927) Bless me so that I can dedicate my… — Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada 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
Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are… — A. J. P. Taylor 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
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And… — Norman Schwarzkopf 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
“It didn’t matter; most bravery boiled down to nothing more than a strong sense of duty that piggybacked an even stronger sense… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
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