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Quotes About Duty

I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.
~ Winfield Scott Hancock
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.
~ Phillips Brooks
We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
~ J. C. Ryle
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
~ Jimmy Carter
It's our Christian duty to offer spiritual worship to God that engages our minds, stirs our hearts & flows from our lips
~ Alistair Begg
I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
~ William Wilberforce
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.
~ Susa Young Gates
God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
~ John Henry Newman
For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.
~ Maimonides
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
~ Pope John Paul II
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.
~ Alan Keyes
If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?
~ Bob Riley
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
~ Ezra Cornell
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy.
~ Horatio Nelson
The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'
~ James Patterson
Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
~ Janet Morris
The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.
~ Joseph Story
There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!
~ James A. Baldwin
Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.
~ William Shakespeare
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
~ Benjamin Disraeli