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“If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.”

Ifs Mean Pleasure Duty Ambition Satisfaction Golden Doing Right Golden Mean

Book:Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”

“My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.”

Duty Ambition Army My Ambition Regretful

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.”

Men May Mean Moments Law Values Lines Taken Fate Divine Duty Ambition Obstacles Setting Settings Luxury Contentment Conformity Avarice Greatest Obstacles Divine Will Resigning

Author:Seneca the Younger

“a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn’t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.”

“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.”

Men Love Life Successful Duty Ambition Mere True Love Valuable Arise Devotion Objectives Purpose Of Life Stem Devotion To Duty

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.”

Humans War Desire Passion Peace Dangerous Duty Fame Ambition Weakness Tyranny Vanity Breasts Strongest Tyrants Conspiracy Honorable Avarice

Author:James Madison

“It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future!”

Want Together Can Do Duty Ambition Glorious Partnership Business Growth

Author:Ingvar Kamprad

“A sense of duty imprisons you.”

Book:Truisms and essays

Source: Truisms and essays