“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Ziglar has often used this saying, but it originates with Phillips Brooks, as quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody.
Misattributed
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) American clergyman and author
As quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody, p. 190
“When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.”
Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Jotted (in German) on the margins of a letter to him (1933), p. 56
Unsourced variants: Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. / You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Source: Living, Loving, and Learning (1982), p. 53
James Mattis (1950) 26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United States Marine Corps general
Referring to the ubiquitous presentation software at a brief in North Carolina in April 2010, as quoted in We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?src=me&ref=general (2010) by Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times
“Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre
Source: Danse Macabre
“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”
Andrew Sean Greer book The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
