duty

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

Duty eats free will for breakfast.

And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion. _ The Prince, XVIII, 5

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 __aiting Upon the Lord_ By Henry B. Eyring, BYU Speeches, 30 Sept 1990

The sole sacred duty is to fear God.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas." -Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)

Our heroes are over there where the white crosses are. We're survivors over here. None of us are heroes. I don't think you'll talk to a man who say we are. You figure a hero is someone who does above and beyond the call of duty, and when you give your life that's as above and beyond as you can get- Earl McClung.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

Eventually you will find something to put that energy into and you will be unstoppable. Even now with something you take no joy in, you do your task dutifuly, because it's all you can do. There's something beautiful in that, Collin.

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God__ protection.

giving is a duty not a choice. Giving has no boundaries but it may be done under a noble discretion

He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

_love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow_

When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready.