Inspirations

In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

- Ruth 1:16, Bible

No man can serve two masters.

- Matthew 6:24, Bible

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

- Samuel Goldwyn

Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you're getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities.

- Charles Tremendous Jones

The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

- Michael Jordan

We are all the President's men.

- Henry Kissinger

Loyalty binds me.

- Motto

Birds of a feather flock together.

- Proverb

It is better to be faithful than famous.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

- Josiah Royce

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

- Oscar Wilde

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

- Woodrow T Wilson

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

- Thomas Carlyle

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

- Charles Horton Cooley

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

- Pierre Corneille

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

- Theodore L Cuyler

Duty cannot exist without faith.

- Benjamin Disraeli

The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

- George Eliot

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

- John Fowles

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love can do much, but duty more.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.

- Ellen Sturgis Hooper

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

- Joseph Joubert

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

- Thomas A Kempis

Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

- Robert E Lee

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

- Abraham Lincoln

What is possible is our highest duty.

- William E Mclaren

Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

- Theodore Parker

Never step over one duty to perform another.

- English Proverb

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

- Indian Proverb

Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

- Henri Benjamin Rebecque

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

- John D Rockefeller

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.

- Theodore Roosevelt

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

- Bertrand Russell

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

- Charles A Stoddard

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

- Thomas Szasz

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

- Mark Twain

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

- Wayne Calloway

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

- Margaret Carty

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

- Dan Devine

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

- B Dodge

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

- Henry Ford

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

- Doctor Allan Fromme

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

- Estill I Green

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

- George Herbert

Many hands make light work.

- John Heywood

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

- Napoleon Hill

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

- Lou Holtz

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

- Earvin Magic Johnson

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

- Earvin Magic Johnson

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Helen Keller

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

- Helen Keller

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

- Vince Lombardi

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

- Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

- Akio Morita

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

- David Ogilvy

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality.

- Joe Paterno

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

- Ethiopian Proverb

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

- Pat Riley

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

- Pat Riley

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

- Pat Riley

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

- John Rollwagen

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

- Babe Ruth

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

- Martin Rutte

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

- Michael De Saintamo

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

- Casey Stengel

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

- Brian Tracy

TEAM, Together Everyone Achieves More.

- Source Unknown

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

- Source Unknown

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

- Source Unknown

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

- Source Unknown

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

- Source Unknown

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

- Source Unknown

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

- Source Unknown

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes, in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

- Source Unknown

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

- Source Unknown

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

- Source Unknown

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Denis Waitley

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

- Bud Wilkinson

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

- Vaclav Havel

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

- Georg Hegel

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

- Andrew Jackson

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

- Thomas Jefferson

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.

- Thomas Paine

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

- Daniel Webster

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Get Inspired for Virtue 4: Justice and Civic Strengths

In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

No man can serve two masters.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you're getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities.

The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

We are all the President's men.

Loyalty binds me.

Birds of a feather flock together.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

What is possible is our highest duty.

Never step over one duty to perform another.

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Many hands make light work.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality.

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

TEAM, Together Everyone Achieves More.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.