Duty Quote by Victor Hugo

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

— Victor Hugo

“As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit; but it…

— Victor Hugo

Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is…

— Henry B. Eyring

“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

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder…

— Juan Somavia

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

— Albert Einstein