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

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. – Henri Frederic Amiel

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
power
category

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Adams

Category:
power

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they cant control. – Michael Bloomberg

Category:
power

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. – Samuel Richardson

Category:
power

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. – George A. Smith

Category:
power

Random Quotes

Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. – Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir

Category:
Summer

The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. – Blaine Lee

Category:
Business

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. – Robert Burns

Category:
Certainty

You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity. – Theodore L. Cuyler

Category:
Inheritance