Quotes About Obligations

The sacrifices, duties, and obligations of a military wife have no equivalent in the civilian world, and many women are not cut out for the job.

For I have promises to keep; and miles to go before I sleep.

Even now I carry my voter-registration card in my wallet—reminding me of both my privileges and my obligations as an adult citizen in a free country. The card tells me much more than just the location of my voting booth. It's one of the most powerful talismans of my identity—even more important than a driver's license. Anybody can drive a car.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations

if we want to survive and flourish, humankind has little choice but to complement such local loyalties with substantial obligations toward a global community.

Una de las pocas leyes rigurosas de la historia es que los lujos tienden a convertirse en necesidades y a generar nuevas obligaciones.

En resumen, mientras que el nacionalismo me enseña que mi nación es única y que tengo obligaciones especiales para con ella, el fascismo dice que mi nación es suprema y que debo a mi nación obligaciones exclusivas.

luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.

You born with three obligations: to love, to live, and to be happy.

the House voted 203 to 202 in favor of the bill. Some sixty-nine Democrats had defected, but twenty-one Republicans had voted yes. On August 18 FDR signed into law the bill extending selectees' obligations to eighteen months of military service.

Yet a cluttered desk piled high with papers could stand for quite a few things: inner disorder, fear of meeting one's obligations, accepting too much responsibility, ignoring mundane details, and so on. This inconsistency is valid because we each express and at the same time hide who we are. Some of the time you express who you are, while at other times you detach from your real feelings, deny them, or find outlets that feel socially acceptable.

You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying.

Epictetus] believes that God gave man the means to fulfill all his obligations; that these means are within his power, that happiness is attained through what we are capable of, this being the reason God gave them to us. Our mind cannot be forced to believe what is false, nor our will compelled to love something that makes it unhappy. These two powers are therefore free, and it is through them that we can become perfect.

I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy.

Family helps you make clearer choices about things. Your priorities become clearer. Your obligations become clearer, and that is something I welcome.

Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.

I realized that so much of our precious time is taken up by obligations that we don't even really need.