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The interests of a nation, when well understood,
will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Faithfulness in the performance of small duties
gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations
that life will someday force us to make.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
It is better to do one's own duty,
however defective it may be,
than to follow the duty of another,
however well one may perform it.
He who does his duty as
his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying
as to put the right man in the right place.
- Thomas Jefferson
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
You cannot divorce religious belief and public service.
I've never detected any conflict between
God's will and my political duty.
If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Rights that do not flow from duty
well performed are not worth having.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the Great Way perishes, there will be morality and duty.
When cleverness and knowledge arise, great lies will flourish.
When relatives fall out with one another,
there will be filial duty and love.
When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Lao Tzu
To keep the body in good health is a duty...
otherwise we shall not be able
to keep our mind strong and clear.
- The Buddha
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war;
but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on,
we must defend ourselves.
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether
it was fired from within or without,
we must try to extinguish it.
- Thomas Jefferson
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
What if we like our outrageous side best?
We "know" that the "right" thing to do is to suck it up,
put the costume and the happy face back in storage for another year,
re-dress in our frown and gray flannel suit,
and trudge back to job, chores, "responsibilities," and "duty."
Stop! Maybe TODAY is the day to put the frown and gray flannel
into that dusty storage locker, and start to LIVE.
Not just today, but EVERY DAY for the rest of your life!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
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