Quotes About Obligations

I have too many debts with the wrong people.

When someone dies, you have to do many things that mark it: telling other people, getting rid of the body, writing to the bank, the tax man, the magazines and shops he subscribed to. No matter how hard this is, doing all this tells you it's really happened.

I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

Promises. I was drowning in Promises

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Our compact is not just with those who are alive today. It's also with those who have come before us and those yet to be born. To the founding fathers, the Constitution and our system of government established a moral bond connecting generations. "There seems…to be some foundation in the nature of things, in the relation which one generation bears to another, for the descent of obligations from one to another

I believe we're bound together by the ideals and principles we share, and the mutual obligations those principles entail.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

The events of 1940 and 1941 showed that when a country has its back to the wall it is unlikely to put obligations like the Geneva Protocol ahead of military expediency.

We have been given great responsibilities, great works to perform, and surely we will be commanded to continue—

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

The relations individuals enter into with other individuals nowadays have been described as 'pure' – meaning 'no strings attached', no unconditional obligations assumed and so no predetermination, and therefore no mortgaging, of the future. The sole foundation and only reason for the relationship to continue is, it has been said, the amount of mutual satisfaction drawn from it.

The life of study is austere and imposes grave obligations. It pays, it pays richly; but it exacts an initial outlay that few are capable of. The athletes of the mind, like those of the playing field, must be prepared for privations, long training, a sometimes superhuman tenacity. We must give ourselves from the heart, if truth is to give itself to us. ?#?Truth? serves only its slaves.

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Dharma thus has nothing to with rules or obligations. It has to do with intent and caring for the other, be it your kingdom or your family.

In the five hundred years that followed, a group of texts collectively known as the Dharma-shastras came where dharma was equated with social obligations

To do yagna is to recognize that we live in a sea of assumed expectations and obligations. You and I can hoard, grab, give in order to get, get before giving or simply withdraw from the exchange. We can act out of desire, duty or care. We can choose to expect or control outcome, or not.

Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

This is how we understand depressive psychosis today: as a bogging down in the demands of others—family, job, the narrow horizon of daily duties. In such a bogging down the individual does not feel or see that he has alternatives, cannot imagine any choices or alternate ways of life, cannot release himself from the network of obligations even though these obligations no longer give him a sense of self-esteem, of primary value, of being a heroic contributor to world life even