Quotes about Duty
We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted.
- Henry B. Eyring
Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds of stinky dippers, tending the garden God has put us in. This is why my dear wife vacuums the floor, for it is part of the garden she has been called to dress and to keep. But she is doing this not as raw duty, but because she understands that she is exercising dominion over the dust, for the glory of Christ.
- RC Sproul Jr.
We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
- William Booth
Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.
- Phil Klay
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do we seek happiness because we're sinners or because we're human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness?
- Randy Alcorn
Do we seek happiness because we're sinners or because we're human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness? Much
- Randy Alcorn
They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?
- Joseph Heller
Rise above principal and do what's right.
- Joseph Heller
I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.
- Joseph Heller
Sure, there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
- Joseph Heller
The more loyalty oaths a person signed, the more loyal he was; to Captain Black it was as simple as that, and he had Corporal Kolodny sign hundreds with his name each day so that he could always prove he was more loyal than anyone else.
- Joseph Heller