(1168 quotes found)
“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“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.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.”
George W. Bush
“Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.”
Dan Castellaneta
“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort”
Humphrey Davy
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
James Allen
“My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' he muttered to himself, 'and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.”
Douglas Adams
“Respect for one's parents is the highest duty of civil life.”
Proverb
