Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark TwainTags: duty golden-rule twain
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.
Ben SteinTags: life love human duty help
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]
Tags: liberty compassion rich wealth freedom society duty poor assistance development-aid moral-obligation social-security third-world
There is but one path of safety to the Latter-day Saints, and that is the path of duty. It is not testimony, it is not marvelous manifestations, it is not knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true, . . . it is not actually knowing that the Savior is the Redeemer, and that Joseph Smith was His prophet, that will save you and me, but it is the keeping of the commandments of God, the living the life of a Latter-day Saint.
[Heber J. Grant, Improvement Era, November 1936, p. 659] Quoted in “Waiting Upon the Lord” By Henry B. Eyring, BYU Speeches, 30 Sept 1990
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Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
Joyce MeyerTags: conscience character duty
Non nobis solum nati sumus.
(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
Tags: self latin duty helping-others
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
Jane AustenTags: philosophy jane-austen duty emma mr-knightley wisdom-in-fiction classic-literature
Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: purpose belief self-deception reasoning duty ends interest sardonic
Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.
I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.
Tags: love duty feelings firefly
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
George EliotTags: duty
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