“God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.” MindMaySpiritUnderstandingDutyBearsBurdenShouldersGrantsHorizonSmallestGodlyUprightness Book:Thoughts that breathe Source: Thoughts that breathe
“A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.” MindFirstsHumansHeartSaidTwoStatesPoliticalHumanityNationsUnderstandingSawsShareHuman NatureDutyMy HeartMetsConcernUniversalUnionsIncludingEightCampaignsPresidentialContinuingSeventiesInvolvementFirst LadyPolitical LifePresidential Campaign Author:Hillary Clinton
“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.” MenLooksKindPersonsReasonFoundStrongUnderstandingInterestDutyMetsPerfectionInstinctGuidesWelfareRemoveCunningBrutesDiscretionGood Understanding Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.” MenWellsEndsUnderstandingTakenFailingHe ManDutySolitudeSatisfactionFlyingManners Author:Edmund Burke
“The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.” ReligionUnderstandingDutyExerciseHighestSufficientSincerely Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.” MenReasonFoundUnderstandingSoundDutyJudgmentPerfectionGuidesDiscretion Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.” WantWholeActionTogetherUnderstandingGreaterDutyPerceptionImpulseRhetoricEmancipationClarification Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric
“It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.” WarUnderstandingDutyDrugJudgmentConscienceDirectCourtOppositionInstructionUsersJuryVerdictJurorsJury DutyNullificationJudge And Jury Author:John Adams
“Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic feelings by participating in the situations of others and acquiring an understanding of them. He thinks we also have a duty to make ourselves into the kind of person for whom the recognition that something is our duty would be a sufficient incentive to do it (if no other incentives were available to us). That's what he means by "the duty to act from the motive of duty".” IfsThinkingKindMeanPersonsDoeFeelingsWould BeUnderstandingSituationDutyAvailableRecognitionSufficientMotiveIncentivesSympatheticParticipating Author:Allen W. Wood
“Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an artificially constructed ideal national subject. So likewise in João Gilberto Noll, readers shouldn't expect samba and Carnival and football. The Brazilian national identity is not one of his primary concerns.” SometimesPastUnderstandingIdentityFootballDutyAuthorityUniqueConcernComplainingLatinModernismLatin AmericaAmerican Writer Author:Adam Morris
“Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the "why" are usually astute, high- performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse of those they benefit the most. When utilized correctly, this understanding can create a powerful sense of duty and purpose for business teams because the employees know exactly whom they are working for and to what end.” PhilosophyPurposeUnderstandingPowerfulTeamDutyPerformingEmployee Author:Don Yaeger
“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.” MenMindFeelingsReligionStrongUnderstandingPleasureCasesDutyDrinkMembersRegardCastsNeglectDisorderAppetiteIndulgeCivil SocietyStrong Drink Book:journal Source: journal
“Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.” HandsRememberEnjoyUnderstandingGraceDutyDirty Author:W. Somerset Maugham