
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
As quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody, p. 190
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.”
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.”
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth
Original: In qualsiasi professione, la differenza la fa sempre l'amore che si prova per un lavoro. Amare il proprio lavoro... è l'unico modo per fare bene il proprio dovere.
Source: prevale.net
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Context: It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.
Far from living in a world of visions and imagining men better than they are, we see them as they are; and that is why we affirm that the best of men is made essentially bad by the exercise of authority, and that the theory of the "balancing of powers" and "control of authorities" is a hypocritical formula, invented by those who have seized power, to make the "sovereign people," whom they despise, believe that the people themselves are governing. It is because we know men that we say to those who imagine that men would devour one another without those governors: "You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'"
“They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational.. even the inexcusable.”
Source: The Van Alen Legacy
“Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.”
No. 15.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 53
1910s