Clara Barton Quotes

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Sweat saves blood.

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

Your duty to the Country, is to live for four years.

War was a time when personal desires were of necessity subjugated to a singleness of purpose …

Basic training is horrible. It's dirty, and it's ugly. But you learn it's not just about you. It makes you part of a team, which helps you to survive.

I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

What I had to do always came before what I wanted to do.

Just being able to grind, day in and day out. You have to be a different kind of person to not just do the workouts, but to not make money for months at a time.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

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

I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever it is.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?