Janet Erskine Stuart Quotes

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

We don't get our shoulds, we get our musts.

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.