The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: Duty Quotes

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by...

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by...

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light...

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light...

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating...

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating...

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so...

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so...

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without...

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without...

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind...

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind...

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry...

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry...

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with...

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with...

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to...

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to...

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so...

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so...

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than...

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than...

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the...

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the...

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly...

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly...

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well...

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well...

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure...

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure...

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,...

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,...