Family Duty Quotes

Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

Work gives you meaning. Work turns you into a servant to your family and to your neighbors and to your local community.

My parents' sacrifice and hard work obligated me to be successful, it wasn't an option to fail.

Nobody said, 'You have to step up and be a leader for the family.' I took it upon myself. I wanted to set the bar high for my brothers.

I was the sixteen-year-old driving everyone to bingo and shopping. It was quite a responsibility. It made me the man in charge of a lot of things.

My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

I understand the dignity that comes from work and caring for one's family.

If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them faith as a foundation and hope that when they bemuse older teens and young adults they will choose the same thing for themselves.

Now I'm his dad, I live for [my son]. I have a responsibility. It's a big responsibility.

It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.

I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything.

Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship; but dream not that she is lost to the work of the church; far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord. Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

Can serving the mother be a favour? A son is only dedicated to serve the mother....The favour has been done by the party.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.