Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 1701 till 1720 of 1725.

  • Ben Zobrist You want to represent Christ well with doing you job, first and foremost, because that's what you're there to do.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Bernadette Peters You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Gabriele Lusser Rico Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.
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  • Busy Philipps Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Richard Bach Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • John D. Mcdonald Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Bill Gates [Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Before you can do something you must first be something.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Pablo Picasso Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Armstrong Williams For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Helen Keller I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bryan Robson I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Barbara Ward Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Denis Diderot Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Bob Beauprez My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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