Quotes About Obligation

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart

Who pays for the orgy?

We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen.

They were inculcated with a firm sense of noblesse oblige, as with a respect for hierarchy; the Slonim girls knew well how to decode a social situation, and what they could rightfully expect from one. In part these seemed to be survival tactics for living in an uncertain time.

With great power, there must also come, great responsibility

If you fail at your job, you do not blame some outside force. You look right in the mirror and take responsibility. That was the problem with the world. No one took responsibility.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to

Not only is it important to ask questions and find the answers, as a scientist I felt obligated to communicate with the world what we were learning.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

You still owe a debt. Pay it.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

They must accept responsibility, recognizing that responsibility is not the same as culpability .

There is a sacred duty, which you are divinely gifted to performed.

Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.

marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

words 'organized games' held the same appeal to me as the words 'compulsory smear test'.

I tried - not because I really had an appetite for genetics - but because I couldn't bear the thought that Will would go on and on at me if I didn't. He was like that now. He was actually a bit of a bully. And, really annoyingly, he would quiz me on how much I had read of something, just to make sure I really had.

It was the feeling that her promise had hemmed her in, that she was now bound by obligation to produce this thing, to harbor it in a body that had always been, quite comfortably, entirely hers. (Suzanna's thoughts after promising her husband that they can try for a baby.)

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love.

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love. It's much more powerful that way.

The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.