Duty Quotes

• Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Life
  • Forgiveness
  • Duty

• Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

  

  Nina Garcia
  • Life
  • Duty
  • Jury

• If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Vocation

• You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Simple
  • Extraordinary
  • Holy

• I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Duty
  • I Know

• One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

  

  William Carey
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Firsts

• I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

  

  Nina Bawden
  • Different
  • Look
  • Duty

• These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Character
  • Wish
  • Purpose

• Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Care
  • Child
  • Obligation

• To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the basic concepts and principles upon which this nation has been established. Yes, they need to develop a love for our free institutions.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Free
  • Develop

• The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise our experiences and make them presentable, in fiction it’s possible to sweep away all the veils—in fact, perhaps, it’s a duty.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Literature
  • Achievement
  • Ideologies

• There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can. This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits which are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Duty
  • Spirits

• A sense of duty imprisons you.

  

  Jenny Holzer
  • Sense
  • Duty
  • Imprison

• No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

  

  David McIntyre
  • Duty
  • Scripture
  • Communion

• And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Trying
  • Fighting
  • Leaving

• Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

  

  William Law
  • Religious
  • Perfection
  • Holy

• The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

  

  Tony Blair
  • Community
  • Problem
  • Interest

• Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Men
  • Military
  • Leader

• The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

  

  George Washington
  • Constitution
  • Majority
  • Command

• They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Animal
  • Protect
  • Welfare

• To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

  

  Joseph Story
  • God
  • Responsibility
  • Duty

• I know no surer way of shaking off the dreary crust formed about the soul by the trying to do one’s duty or the patient enduring of having somebody else’s duty done to one, than going out alone, either at the bright beginning of the day, when the earth is still unsoiled by the feet of the strenuous and only God is abroad; or in the evening, when the hush has come, out to the blessed stars, and looking up at them wonder at the meanness of the day just past, at the worthlessness of the things one has struggled for, at the folly of having been so angry, and so restless, and so much afraid. Nothing focusses life more exactly than a little while alone at night with the stars. What are perfunctory bedroom prayers hurried through in an atmosphere of blankets, to this deep abasement of the spirit before the majesty of heaven? And as a consecration of what should be yet one more happy day, of what value are those hasty morning devotions.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • God
  • Soul
  • Beginning

• Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

  

  Hassan Nasrallah
  • Force
  • Duty
  • Hizbullah

• Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

  

  Stephen Samuel Wise
  • Vision
  • Duty
  • Inward

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