Performing Duty Quotes

#1. Finally, this is better, that one do His own task as he may, even though he fail, Than take tasks not his own, though they seem good. To die performing duty is no ill; But who seeks other roads shall wander still.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

Richard Baxter

#3. Performing the duty prescribed by (one's own) nature, one incurreth no sin.

Anonymous

#4. It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.

Patti Smith

#5. Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

Thomas Merton

#6. I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#7. Duty is a concept created by emperors and generals to deceive us into performing their will. Be wary when duty speaks, for it often masks the voice of others.

Tan Twan Eng

#8. You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is a plain duty for all who mean to be Christians.

Washington Gladden

#9. I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.

Jeff Mangum

#10. There is not a single person who cannot easily reach the highest degree of perfection by performing every duty, no matter how commonplace, with eager love.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#11. I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.

Max Gluckman

#12. God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch.

Anthony Liccione

#13. The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

Woodrow Wilson

#14. The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Alexis Carrel

#15. The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.

Leopold Trepper

#16. I live absolutely like an oyster.

Gustave Flaubert

#17. If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.

David Livingstone

#18. Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Ulysses S. Grant

#19. Some oysters which Griselda had ordered, and which would seem to be beyond the reach of incompetence, we were, unfortunately, not able to sample as we had nothing in the house to open them with - an omission which was discovered only when the moment for eating them arrived.

Agatha Christie

#20. I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

Kay Boyle

#21. I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

Narendra Modi