Quotes About Duty

I honor you for every timethis year you:got back upvibrated highershined your lightand loved and elevatedbeyond—the call of duty.

The royal power is the grace to act right.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

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

Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

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

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment.

The public must and will be served.

At the edge of his dreams, there was often a sound like the faint, distant cry of someone in distress, and for minutes after waking, he would feel the anxiety of some duty unfulfilled.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Service is no heritage.