Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 461 till 480 of 1725.

  • Richard Thalheimer Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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  • Henry Wotton He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
    Henry Wotton
    English diplomat, politician and writer (1568 - 1639)
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  • Lord Chesterfield He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bram Stoker He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Blaise Pascal He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • P. Massinger He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
    P. Massinger
     
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  • Thomas Paine He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Jonathan Swift He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
    Source: Polite Conversation (1738)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Aristotle He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Adele Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • E. B. White Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Ben Jonson His opinion of verses.
    That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him. That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied.
    Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Box Brown Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Thomas Jefferson Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Akhenaton Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • George Bernard Shaw How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Butler Yeats How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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