Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility. — Jerry Junkins Copy Share Image
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to work with others. One of my main values is, you learn this system of mutual benefit. That… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ...… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The corporate controlled government is completely okay with your health being damaged by your employer, but shirks its responsibility to give you… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that… The real job of every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
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