Due Quotes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Success isn't owned, it's leased. And rent is due every day.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Luck is the residue of design.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists;

and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

Success isn't owned, it's leased. And rent is due every day.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

It is right to give every man his due.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.

That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual.

No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely.

.. change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

Love consists in giving without getting in return;

in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys.

To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government, as a barrier against foreign foes, to equalize and moderate the public contributions, that while the requisite services are invited by due renumeration, nothing beyond this may exist to attract the attention of our citizens from the pursuits of useful industry, nor unjustly to burthen those who continue in those pursuitsthese are functions of the General Government on which you have a right to call.

This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the most heavily upon the soldier. For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his countrys cause. The highest merit, then, is due to the soldier.

Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States.

It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly. This is true about Mr. Wilson now and it has been true about all our Presidents in the past. It is our duty at all times to tell the truth about the President and about every one else, save in the cases where to tell the truth at the moment would benefit the public enemy.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.