Life Duties Quotes

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job

All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.