Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
Always do more than is required of you.
Duty is the essence of manhood.
The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Man’s duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.
Beneficence is a duty.
The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.
The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.