Quotes about Duty
Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.
- Janette Oke
I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!
- Ezra Taft Benson
... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
- Ezra Taft Benson
When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.
- Gordon Hinckley
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
- George Eliot
Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their state in life, sacrifice themselves for their neighbor, and keep their hearts and minds free of this world.
- Mother Angelica
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
- Pope John Paul II
It is the responsibility of men and women of God to tell the truth.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.
- Thomas Jefferson
For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
- Thomas Merton