Duty Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Duty is whatever opposes inclination.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Duty Inclination Responsibility
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I… — Damian Green 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, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?” — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You have a right to be sad, and a duty to move on. Only wins who wipes the tears, gather strength and move forward.” — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
