Quotes about Duty
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
— Edmund Burke
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
— Mark Twain
And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.
— John Tillotson
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
— Henry David Thoreau