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“The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.”

People Ifs World Wells Would Be Happiness Taught Duty Brighter

Author:John Lubbock

“The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.”

Wells Form Asks Individual Rights Duty Rights And Duties

Author:Ameen Rihani

“Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.”

People Ifs Wells Would Be Speak Knowing Duty Silent Privilege Speaks Out

Author:Rachel Carson

“It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.”

Thinking Wells Would Be Literature Responsibility Particular Duty Offers Awards Makers Comment Scholarly

Book:William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

“Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.”

Wells May Duty Worship Humble Toil

Author:Brigham Young

“Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth.”

Wells Sometimes Use Earth Values Responsibility Environment Land Duty Citizens Calling Stewardship Personal Responsibility Stewards

Author:George W. Bush

“In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country to love, a property to defend, and some share in enacting those laws which it was their interest, as well as duty, to maintain. But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.”

Wells Law Interest Duty Authority Sovereign

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.”

Wells May States Hands Steps Duty Stronger Privilege Improving Honored

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a recognized duty, to listen patiently to what might be said to him upon any subject under consideration....Neither, I need scarcely say, was he in the habit of talking, much less boasting, of his own achievements.”

Men Needs Wells Said Might Pleasure Talking Greater Subjects Duty Habit Achievement Consideration Boast Conceit Talking Much

Author:Martin Van Buren

“Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?”

“Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization.”

Source: In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986

“Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind.”

Wells Doe Country Mankind Particular Duty Makers Assured Hereafter Secured Protector Felicity

Author:William Samuel Johnson

“The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.”

Thinking Wells Long Important Done Running Individual Greater Rights Duty Rewards Long Runs Well Done Insistence Individual Rights

Book:A Square Deal

Source: A Square Deal

“I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where I mixed with less well off people. Maybe it comes from there but I've always felt that it's our duty to make society fairer.”

People Wells Done Jobs Felt Duty Summer Seasons Winter Backgrounds Britain Privileged Mundane Alps Winter Season

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in the United States where I was taught the importance of personal preference, so at home it was all about learning your duties and responsibilities whereas in school it was all about well you get to decide what you want you want to eat.”

Want Wells States Home School United Responsibility United States Growing Up Growing Taught Duty Importance What You Want Traditional Household Preference Personal Preferences

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.”

Wells Self States Government Belief Levels Duty Citizens Reform Legacy Behalf Imperatives Suspicious Self Education Mistrust Top Down Most Inspiring

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Persons Doe Stills Helping Feelings Action Humanity Choices Realizing Cases Duty Ought Sorrow Strive Motive Absent Sympathetic

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.”

Knows Giving Believe Wells Done I Believe Duty Generous Giving Back Philanthropic

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.”

Trying Wells Duty Keep Trying

Author:John Banville

“The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.”

Wells Done Lasts Duty Future Preparation Preparation For The Future

Author:George MacDonald

“Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.”

Years Wells Film Duty Years Ago Festivals Jury Film Festivals Jury Duty

Author:Liam Neeson

“We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.”

“Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.”

Men Humans Wells Made States Natural Rights Duty Protect Consequence Crisis Human Rights Population Humanitarian Graves Primaries Violation Violation Of Human Rights

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”

Firsts Wells Kind Two Design Building Duty Goodness Architecture Practicals Individualism Architecture And Design

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.”

Years Firsts Wells Children States Literature Born Duty Educated Feds Discretion

Author:John Ruskin

“Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.”

Life Mind Wells Education Our Lives Duty Prison Destined

Book:Dear Me

Source: Dear Me

“Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.”

Men Wells Voice Teach Military Example Duty Endurance Troops Spares Fatigue Private Life Shortcomings Subordinates Tin Our Troops Military Power Harshness Sharpness Well Mannered

Author:Erwin Rommel

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

Love Life Wells Ability Duty Doing Your Best

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.”

“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.”

Knows Way Wells Enough Remember Artist Religion Walks Trust Duty Asking Leaving Obvious Stations Submit Fulfilling Right Way Asking For Forgiveness

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.”

Wells Long Important Duty Lessons Obligation Consideration Life Lesson Discharge

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty." "If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?" "Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.”

Ifs Wells Looks Enough Suffering Father Wish Greatness Duty Fine Quiet Reputation Luxury Free Will Heroism Physicians Behalf Candor Respectability True Greatness

Author:Libba Bray

“Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.”

Thinking Men Wells Ideas Home Earth Enjoy Pleasure Duty Source Mountain Excuse This Life Climbing Peculiar Climbing Mountain Nile

Author:Barbara Mertz

“The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.”

Ifs Men Wells Looks Has Beens Spirit Turns Jesus Justice Teaching Duty Miles Cease Cheeks Disciple Sermons Misunderstood Oh Well Sermon On The Mount Turn The Other Cheek

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about... and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

Wells I Can Dream Might Would Be Literature Belief Fields Painting Duty Distinction Cows Filmmaking Chronicles

Author:Werner Herzog

“By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger”

Wells Hands Duty Stronger

Book:Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation