“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

—  Zig Ziglar

Ziglar has often used this saying, but it originates with Phillips Brooks, as quoted in ‪Primary Education‬ (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody.
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American motivational speaker 1926–2012

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