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“The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.”

Humans Desire Motivation Interest Mankind Security Duty Rewards Strongest Incentives Fidelity Ruling Passion

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.”

World Desire Artist Responsibility Duty Discipline Goodness Work Out Good Work Aesthetics Singularity Candor Muster Universality Radicalism

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?”

“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.”

Giving Mind Real Spiritual Desire Wise Progress Achieve Duty Giving Up Temptation Deception Tranquility Rise Above Spiritual Progress

Author:Sivananda

“The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.”

“The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.”

People Wells Young Desire Strong Situation Economy Clear Economic Policy Duty Creating Missions Japan Cherish Capability Foreign Policy Decline Prospects Robust Sluggish

Author:Shinzo Abe

“Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.”

Men Wells Action Desire Duty Direct Intention Affection Every Man Obligation Stations

Book:The Elements of Morality, Including Polity

Source: The Elements of Morality, Including Polity

“The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.”

World Enough Christian Desire Objects Duty Please Command Consistently

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand”

Ifs May Done Desire Duty Horror Glory Deeds Finished Instant Futility

Author:A. C. Bradley

“The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.”

Mind Soul Body Desire Humanity Duty Pure Mercy Impulse Gita Undisciplined Mind Body And Soul

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.”

Matter Desire Duty Coercion

Author:Franz Grillparzer