Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes to Explore
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The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
Rand Paul
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Albert Einstein
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
Albert Einstein
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
C. P. Scott
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In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
Zachary Taylor
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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Clearly the will of the people is that the Legislature make as its 'paramount' duty -- its top priority -- the education of all children. Not just some -- all.
Luke Ford
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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
Napoleon Hill
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Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
Betty Ford
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Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
Colleen McCullough
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Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
Douglas Jerrold
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell
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It's really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it's your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it's easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen.
Jay DeMarcus
Rascal Flatts
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The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
Marcel Proust
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Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
Mother Teresa
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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
Ernest Hemingway
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I am a great believer in luck.
Oleg Cassini
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
