Gertrude Atherton Quotes

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

There are things that are more important than my personal happiness.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.