Best duty & difficult Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.”

Men Lying Easy Difficult Path Journey Duty

Book:The works of mencius

Source: The works of mencius

“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.”

Want May Speak Difficult Duty Morality And Love Neighbor Mediocrity Restraint

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.”

Ifs Heart May Country Home Nations Difficult Responsibility Influence Duty Exercise England Sacred Educated Sentiments Royal Royal Family Sense Of Responsibility

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

“it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.”

Should Littles Dies Difficult Duty Performances

Author:Rebecca West

“Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.”

Humans Difficult Duty Gratitude

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings

“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.”

Men Way Life War Moments Energy Difficult History Doubt Military Danger Duty Difficulty Anger Adversity Salvation Currents Aids Phases Uncertain Historic Battlefields Ascent

Book:Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.”

Knows Sometimes Hard Difficult Practice Duty Obligation

Book:The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler

“We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.”

Ends States Difficult Growth Situation Duty Europe Weak Crisis France Unemployment Mandates Difficult Situations

Author:Francois Hollande

“To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.”

Ifs Firsts Said Values Difficult Duty Illusion Remains Endure

Book:Freud: on War, Sex and Neurosis

Source: Freud: on War, Sex and Neurosis

“Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.”

People Years May Different Self Dies Difficult Duty Rewards Patient Debt Obligation Instant Self Respect Willingness

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.”

Ifs Looks Art School Difficult Break Painting Duty Draws Female Exciting Western Males Upset Friday Taboo Tuesday Art School

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.”

Men Ideas Difficult Duty Crosses

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense of our country to difficult assignments. I tell people all the time, I don't miss much about being president; I do miss looking in the eyes of people who volunteered to serve. And so not only do I feel a kinship, I feel an obligation and a duty to help.”

People Feels Country Helping Eye Difficult President Special Military Missing Duty Committed Defense Obligation Our Country Assignments Kinship Wartime

Author:George W. Bush

“Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as "consumers." OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings. And as long as you're using that word "consumer" in the public discussion, you will be degrading the quality of the discussion we're having. And we're going to continue being clueless going into this very difficult future that we face”

Long Different Difficult Quality Responsibility Duty Obligation Discussion Degrading Clueless

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is in the interest of everybody to put an end to this conflict. But this kind of persuasion, this kind of intense pressure, I believe it's my duty to do, even if I recognize that the contradictions and the different perceptions of interest that exist are making it very difficult.”

Believe Kind Different I Believe Difficult Interest Party Influence Duty Conflict Perception Intense Contradiction Persuasion

Author:Antonio Guterres

“I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.”

Ifs Moments Home Hands Mother Difficult Duty Kissing Soil Sublime Homeland Eugenics Difficult Moments

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.”

Should Persons Book Joy Difficult Perfect Race Duty Perfection Strive Driving Rats Difficult Things Rat Race Loveless Perfect One

Author:R. D. Laing

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