Obligation Quotes

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

Happiness is a moral obligation

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.

You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.

It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it!

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.