Quotes about Duty

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.

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.

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.

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.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

It is the responsibility of men and women of God to tell the truth.

It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

Life never stops, child. Even when it's noisy, unpleasant, painful, it's still the sound of duty, of love, of family, of laws older than time that help us to ultimately find contentment- to be happy. It's the sound of our universe. It's the sound of purpose.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.