Duty Privilege Quotes

#1. Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.

Charles Hodge

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

Adolph Saphir

#3. It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

Joseph P. Bradley

#4. If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

Hannah Hurnard

#7. Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Albert Einstein

#8. The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come ... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#9. Every believer may not be called to preach, but every Christian is called to pray. Prayer is our duty. Prayer is our privilege. Prayer, like air, water and food, is necessary for our survival and growth. But many believers regard prayer as an optional activity.

Larry Lea

#10. If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.

Germaine Greer

#11. Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Phillips Brooks

#12. According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

James A. Garfield

#14. The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

Germaine Greer

#15. It is another kind of marriage - the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

Frank Herbert

#16. When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

Catharine Beecher

#17. Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Russell Kirk

#18. Jesus suffered for us. Yet we are called to participate in His suffering. Though He was uniquely the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy, there is still an application of this vocation for us. We are given both the duty and the privilege to participate in the suffering of Christ.

R.C. Sproul

#19. Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#20. It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

George B. Cortelyou

#21. It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

#22. It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

Bill Frist

#23. It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end

Primo Levi

#24. 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.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity.

John O'Donohue

#26. Privilege," she said gently, "gives the crown its shine. Duty gives it its weight.

Grace Draven

#27. People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

Kathleen Parker

#28. Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.

Roger B. Taney

#29. It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. It is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. It's my place to stand beside you, and support you, and yes, just fucking look pretty on your arm sometimes. It's my right, my duty, and my privilege, Eva, just as it's yours in reverse.

Sylvia Day

#32. It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

Charles Spurgeon

#33. Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

Rebecca West

#34. If by excessive labor we die before reaching the average age of man, worn out in the Master's service, then glory be to God. We shall have so much less of earth and so much more of heaven. It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

#35. It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#36. Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord.

Arthur W. Pink

#37. Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

John D. Rockefeller

#38. My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#39. Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Ambrose Bierce

#40. The church has not been given authority to make commandments; it is the duty of the church to obey the commandments already made. It is not the prerogative nor the privilege of any church to modify, minimize or in any way obscure . . . any commandment, of Jesus Christ.8

Mark Dever

#41. Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

Chris Galford

#42. A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

Shari Arison

#43. The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

Arthur Symons