Quotes About Obligations

In few other professions are you required, each and every day, to weigh so many competing claims—between different sets of constituents, between the interests of your state and the interests of the nation, between party loyalty and your own sense of independence, between the value of service and obligations to your family. There is a constant danger, in the cacophony of voices, that a politician loses his moral bearings and finds himself entirely steered by the winds of public opinion.

All that this country desires is that the other republics on this continent shall be happy and prosperous," Theodore Roosevelt declared, "and they cannot be happy and prosperous unless they maintain order within their boundaries and behave with a just regard for their obligations toward outsiders.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

las viejas tienen poderes y prerrogativas que las jóvenes no conocen, una anarquía que todo lo permite, una falta de obligaciones que cumplir porque si las cumplen o no las cumplen no le importa nada a nadie.

Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

Sometimes I think I was the official killer of bad bills. One I recollect at this minute was about exemptin' debtors from their just debts. The more I listened to 'em argue about lettin' people get out from under their legitimate obligations, the madder I got. If the day ever comes when you can legislate people out of their honest debts . . . well, I never want to live to see it. The country will be in a bad way, that's all I got to say for it.

She will be mired in responsibilities that are not of her own making. She will charm, and beneath her charm, she will regret.

Much depends, of course, on the nature of the male-female relationship in the society. The psychological mechanism behind the assertion that rebirth takes place in initiation may in many cases be very simple: men's desire to detract from the importance of childbearing or to cancel their own obligations to women as the source of life.

If you want to rule your life with obligations to other people, that's you.

Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

UPHOLDER/Obligers must be sure to articulate inner expectations and to create boundaries to protect inner expectations from outer interference.

Upholders-tipped-to-Obligers have a commitment to both inner and outer expectations, for them, the pull of outer expectations is very hard to ignore; UPHOLDER/Obligers must be sure to articulate inner expectations and to create boundaries to protect inner expectations from outer interference.

Memory makes demands that you often can't keep. Memory is faulty because it insists on filling in the blanks.

Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.

It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders.

Some men's deaths left little besides unfulfilled obligations and the inconvenience of a corpse. The departure of others tore holes in the hearts of those who were fortunate enough to know them.

Some men's deaths left little besides unfulfilled obligations and the inconvenience of a corpse.