Quotes about Duty
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
- Andrew Jackson
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
- William Wilberforce
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
- Ronald Reagan
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.
- Ronald Reagan
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Ronald Reagan
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
- Lucille Ball
Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue of His creatures. And so pride—the loss of humility—is the root of every sin and evil.
- Andrew Murray
The life God gives is not all at once, but moment by moment, through the unceasing operation of His mighty power. Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty of the creature, and the root of every good quality.
- Andrew Murray
If salvation indeed comes from God, and is entirely His work, just as creation was, it follows, as a matter of course, that our first and highest duty is to wait on Him to do the work that pleases Him.
- Andrew Murray
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty of the creature, and the root of every good quality.
- Andrew Murray
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty of the creature, and the root of every good quality. Likewise, pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
- Andrew Murray