Quotes tagged ‘Duty’

(31 total)

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”

“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”

“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The household here is in your keeping...If there is any light and warmth in it, it will be your light and warmth; if it is happy, it will be because you've made it so. Happy things may come to you in life, but you must never go seeking them anymore. It is your turn to make the fire.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“It's your turn to be the centre, to give others what was given to you for so long. You've got to give security to young people and peace to your husband, and a sort of charity to the old. You've got to let the people who work for you depend on you. You've got to cover up a few more troubles than you…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“'We make an agreement with children that they can sit in the audience without helping to make the play,' he said, 'but if they still sit in the audience after they're grown, somebody's got to work double time for them, so they can enjoy the light and glitter of the world.' 'But I want the light and…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“It is your turn to make the fire.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“We sit there and complain that we're not being given opportunities or chances. Meanwhile, moments like these are there to be seized–the chance is there, take it!”

— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com

“Let us commend to the love of God with silent prayer the soul of a sinful man who partly tried to do his duty. It is by his wish that I say over his grave these words and no more.”

— Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer, amazon.com

“Her words were ended. But Aeneas, warned by Jove, held still his eyes; he struggled, pressed care back within his breast. With halting words he answers her at last: “I never shall deny what you deserve, the kindnesses that you could tell; I never shall regret remembering Elissa for as long as I reme…”

— Virgil

“The queen stopped but he, warned by Jupiter now, his gaze held steady, fought to master the torment in his heart. At last he ventured a few words: “I… you have done me so many kindnesses, and you could count them all. I shall never deny what you deserve, my queen, never regret my memories of Dido, n…”

— Virgil