Obligation Quotes
When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
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.
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.
We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.
I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.
The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may thrive.
... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.
I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.
Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.
It is the obligation of each person in Israel to raise up the Fallen Bride from the dust into which She has fallen.
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .
I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.
The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.
You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.
For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.
What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?