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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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"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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"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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"There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough." »Mother Theresa
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"The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards." »Bhartrihari
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"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return." »Dag Hammarskjld
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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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"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." »Sun-tzu
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"When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything." »Mehmet Karagoz
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"A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson
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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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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely—all your skills, gifts, and energies—in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming." »Warren Bennis, From an article in a meeting industry magazine.
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"I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else." »Geoffrey Neighor
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"What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."" »Victor Hugo
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"Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across." »Guy Kawasaki
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"Thank God I have done my duty." »Horation Nelson, Admiral British Navy, dying words
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"I know of only one duty, and that is to love." »Albert Camus
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." »Abbie Hoffman
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"God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty." »T. L. Cuyler
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"If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that." »Bruce Lee
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"I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"The first duty of love is to listen." »Paul Tillich
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"England expects that every man will do his duty." »Lord Nelson
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"How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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