Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 1161 till 1180 of 1725.

  • Thomas Carlyle The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alexis Carrel The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Donna Tartt The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Charles Buxton The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Charles M. Schwab The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Isadora Duncan The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Robert Collier The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Plutarch The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • J. B. Priestley The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Sir William Temple The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Bill Buford The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Mark Twain The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Maria Montessori The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Sir William Temple The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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