Battle Quote by Michel de Montaigne

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our…

— Michel de Montaigne

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

— Virginia Woolf

“We are not sent to do everything good. We are commissioned and equipped for a certain noble task”

— Christian Michael

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time…

— Swami Vivekananda

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he…

— Andre Maurois

Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

— W. Phillip Keller

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

— Andrea Hirata

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate.…

— Susan Sontag

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman