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"For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life." »Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." »Lord Acton
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"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." »Alexis Carrel
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"duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer." »Thomas Carlyle
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"duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"duty without love is deplorable.
duty with love is desirable.
Love without duty is Divine." »Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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"And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye." »Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM
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"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." »Publilius Syrus
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"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live." »Samuel Johnson
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"Practice no vice because it's trivial... neglect no virtue because it's so." »Chinese Proverb
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"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike." »J. K. Rowling
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"The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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"Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it." »Chinese
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"To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination." »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect." »Anonymous
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"Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect." »James D. Bryden
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"It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application." »Samuel Smiles
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"If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race." »Oprah Winfrey
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"A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation." »Howard Crosby
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"Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect." »William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
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"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I expect to pass through this world but once any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." »Stephan Grellet
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"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." »Ettiene De Grellet
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"For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind." »Plato
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"Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril." »President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063
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