Quotes about Duty
With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
- Thomas Jefferson
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
- Thomas Paine
Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.
- Randy Alcorn
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.
- St. John Chrysostom
I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
- Henry Ward Beecher
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!
- Herman Melville
No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.
- John Calvin
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
- John Calvin
Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.
- John Wesley