Duty quotes - page 13
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side.
Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.
Richard Carlson
The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.
Howard Mumford Jones
Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.
I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.
Jennifer Lopez
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.
James Franco
With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
Tom Hiddleston
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
Robert Dale Owen
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
John Henry Newman
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Abdul Kalam
I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.
Eric Balfour
Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price.
Dick Randolph
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
Beeban Kidron
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.
James Frey
Life is a mission, not a career.
