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“The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.”

Men Life Self Joy Effort Courage Sacrifice He Man Duty Spring Men And Women Ideals Labor Strive Philanthropy Self Sacrifice

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.”

Men Past Nations Responsibility Gone Blood Tears Duty Fit Labor Moved Every Man Triumph Sweat Citizenship Anguish Peril Forefathers Moved On Sweat And Tears Blood And Sweat

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the Church. She “taught that individual women could receive inspiration to guide them in their personal lives, their families, and their Church responsibilities. She said: ‘Tell the sisters to go forth and discharge their duties, in humility and faithfulness and the Spirit of God will rest upon them and they will be blest in their labors. Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.’”

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”

Life Success Life Is Joy Work Pleasure Duty Labor Slavery Work Effort Joy In Work

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.”

Hard Love Is Principles Duty Labor Delight Supreme Ignorant Faithful Enlightened Hearted

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.”

Men Body Hands Written Duty Arms Labor Muscles Delicate Machinery Stout

Book:The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker

Source: The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker

“Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.”

Men Duty Labor Bread Daily Bread

Author:Thomas F. Wilson

“A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.”

Self Night Morning Sacrifice Duty Return Thousand Labor Dear Affection Crowds Wheels Endurance Procession

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.”

Ifs Doe Self Use Home Values Social Hurt Wealth Class Support Duty Labor Claims Slave Mere Bounds Creator Servant Justify Fabric Feeding Selected

Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock”

Done Work Duty Conscious Devil Labor Clock

Book:Canción de cuna y otros poemas

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?”

“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.”

Hands Jesus Christ Example Duty Jesus Christ Labor Privilege

Author:Catharine Beecher

“The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.”

Needs Body Asks Prayer Watches Duty Labor Our Prayers

Book:The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

Source: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

“O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of a child and its mother. How is it that I without any merit have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? Oh, how gladly will I do so. Though the duty should be even more insignificant and despised, neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor will distress me for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight.”

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Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“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.”

Ifs Men Age Earth Dies Jesus Heaven Our Lives Masters Duty Glory Labor Average Privilege Reaching Worn Worn Out

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit of all opposite his home... I do not say that men are not called to service in far distant places... But I do say that for the vast majority the task that God appoints is the task lying at the door. The nearest thing is God's thing. The nearest duty is God's duty. He who cannot find his service there is little likely to be useful anywhere.”

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Author:George H Morrison

“To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages