63 Quotes Tagged: duty

To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious ornament of reward or self-love. How much she then eclipses everything else that appears charming to the affections, every one may readily perceive with the least exertion of his reason, if it be not wholly spoiled for abstraction.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

Vivons notre vie, soyons heureux. Nous avons le devoir d'être heureux.

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts.

[...] you should not wait for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do your duty; but do good of your own accord.

His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.