Brigham Young Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Talent, Proportion

  Brigham Young (1860). “Journal of Discourses”, p.7

• To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Mind Your Own Business, Duty

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.107

• [Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

  Brigham Young

  Communication, Soul, Path

• What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

  Brigham Young

  Saint, Earth, Latter

• Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.

  Brigham Young

  Humble, Toil, May

• If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Justice, Suffering

• There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can.
  This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits which are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Righteous Man, Wife

• My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

  Brigham Young

  Lord, Duty, Mankind

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.111

• A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

  Brigham Young

  Law, People, Duty

  Brigham Young (1980). “The Journal of Brigham: Brigham Young's Own Story in His Own Words”, p.68, Cedar Fort

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