“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.” IfsMeanPleasureDutyAmbitionSatisfactionGoldenDoing RightGolden 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.” IfsKnowsWorldTryingMayOrderSocialForeverVirtueRiskConditionsEmotionalDutyGoes OnFitNormalAmbitionIntellectualCapacitySexualityRevolutionaryStereotypeFemininityBondageFullnessPerversionAlterationsConstrainSocial Conditions Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.” DutyAmbitionArmyMy AmbitionRegretful 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.” MenMayMeanMomentsLawValuesLinesTakenFateDivineDutyAmbitionObstaclesSettingSettingsLuxuryContentmentConformityAvariceGreatest ObstaclesDivine WillResigning Author:Seneca the Younger