George Washington Quotes

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

George Washington

• Hope
• Fear
• Duty
• Punishment
• Bravery

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • God
  • Believe
  • Same

• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Father
  • India

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Today
  • Man

• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Good
  • Book
  • Worry

• I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Work
  • Way
  • Dark

• I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Trust

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• I always wanted to be a mom.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Wanted

• Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Technology
  • Story
  • Old

• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Acting

• I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Book
  • Vulnerability

• College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Game
  • Interesting

• While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Human

• Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

  

  Darrell Issa
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Violence

• So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Pretty
  • Humans
  • Compass

• Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

  

  George Washington
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Duty