
“[T]he navy performed its part of the operations.”
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 214
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 41.
“[T]he navy performed its part of the operations.”
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 214
“You can´t just tell people what to do and then expect them to perform well.”
as cited in One Man's America (2008), George F. Will, Random House, p. 118 (Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape) : ISBN 0307407861 9780307407863
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 212
Source: Organization design: An information processing view, 1977, p. 21
“All service ranks the same, according to the spirit in which it is performed.”
Speech in Leeds (13 March 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 62-63.
1925
Context: It was for that reason, feeling as I did, that I was driven into the course which I embraced in December, 1916, when I accepted Mr. Bonar Law's offer to serve as his Parliamentary Secretary. I did that deliberately, because I believed that at my time of life, having already sufficient means to be independent of the active business in which I had passed my life up to then, I had the opportunity of giving my services to the country without any feeling that it was necessary to be remunerated for them. There is nothing singular in that. There must have been millions of men who felt as I did. I have never said, or believed, that that service which I had the opportunity of rendering was one whit higher or better than any other. All service ranks the same, according to the spirit in which it is performed. One of the sources of the great strength of our country in every part of the kingdom is that there are men who have no personal ambition for themselves to get where the limelight is brightest and publicity is greatest. And as long as our country can go on producing that type, which I am thankful to say it is producing from all classes of the community— so long as that is the case, I should never despair of England.
Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 6; note that the short phrase "Be good, do good" had occurred in spiritual teachings of others in the 19th century, usually in conjunction with other injunctions. "Be Good, Do Good" became a prominent motto of the Divine Life Society.
Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 207
Variant: Be good, do good, be kind, be compassionate.