Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
- Joseph F. Newton
- Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- ...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- A minute's success pays the failure of years.
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
- The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
- Corra Harris
- Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
- Millicent Fenwick
|