Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

If you can, you must.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

You've got your whole life to do something, And that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call When you're willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right.

What then is your duty? What the day demands.

God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

When there's a thing you have to do, you have to do it.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.