Best relation & duty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.”

People Thinking Children Two Sometimes Duty Protect Married Madness Relation Saved Bores Love Each Other Away From Each Other

Book:Short stories

Source: Short stories

“The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.”

Rights Duty Relation Notion Obligation Former Relative Subordinates

Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

“Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.”

Reason Known Virtue Duty Conscience Relation Revelations

Author:Archibald Alexander

“When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.”

“Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.”

Life Soul Play Use Dream Reality Spiritual Life Is Games Our Lives Duty Relation Noble Selfish Senses Flying Trials Worn Toil Insignificant Worn Out Ascension Weavers

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.”

Source: The judgment of history

“The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.”

Self Individual Interest Groups Duty Morality Concepts Relation Self Interest Survival Instinct

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.”

Creation Duty Taste Conscience Concern Relation Intellect Sole Arbiter Collateral

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.”

People Has Beens Facts Earth Given Nations Responsibility Greatness Duty Relation Expected Behave Great Nations Shirk

Book:The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.”

Knows Children States Form Nations Parent Natural Leader Roles Duty Habit Citizens Relation Fundamentals Who You Are Neighbor Arise Our Family Neighborhood Workplace Linked Parent Child

Author:Epictetus

“It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.”

Ifs Poor Situation Duty Worship Devil Relation International Servant Neglect International Relations Worship God Working For God

Author:Ramsay MacDonald

“You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country.”

Country Character Purpose Attention Duty Relation Assuming Creator Favors Gentleman This Day Providence Public Education

Author:William Samuel Johnson

“In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with that submissive obedience, and that affectionate promptitude of duty, which belong to those endearing relations.”

Children Christian Duty Relation Obedience Servant Child Of God Affectionate Submissive Endearing

Book:A Practical View of Preferred Christians

Source: A Practical View of Preferred Christians

“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”

People Wish Duty Relation Patient Obligation Offensive Resignation

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever discharges; for while in common with them, it has certain duties for the exercise of which it is especially intended, its high character in man, as the organ of conscious life, the supreme instrument of his relations with the rest of nature, is developed only by a long and patient training.”

Men Heart Long Moments Character Certain Common Brain Duty Birth Exercise Capable Training Conscious Function Relation Instruments Patient Supreme Internals Organs Liver Discharge

Author:Ray V. Pierce

“cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.”

Men Humans Feelings Suffering Natural Human Beings Animal Duty Morality Relation Philosophical Contrary Cruelty Tendencies Animal Cruelty

Author:Immanuel Kant

“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?”

“The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.”

May Humanity Nations Justice Cases Policy Duty Relation Obligation Foreign Policy Farewell Address Amity

Book:Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence

Source: Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence

“Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with.”

Ifs Long Self Pay Awareness Events Duty Hatred Relation Guilt Forgotten Apology Apologizing Casual Self Hatred When Things Go Wrong Awareness Of Others

Author:Nancy Chodorow

Relation Quotes

Related topics

Relation Quotes