Quotes About Obligation

You owe these cats nothing," hissed Tigerclaw.

Stonetooth took his place. "I give you a life for duty," he meowed. "Remember what you owe to your Clan as well as what your Clan owes to you." He touched noses with Brokentail, who flexed his claws briefly and then was still.

Only then did she realize that she had completely forgotten to meet Crowfeather at twilight.

It will remind us of the debts that we owe to our former Clanmates," he

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: "You only wrriter, or your work also?" "I hope to teach English one day.

The laws of thermodynamics were very clear on the subject – all debts must be paid in full.

Patra was trying to read Hegel's Science of Logic. This is something no one should ever feel obliged to do.

Time and again they have told us we are obligated, we have our duty, we must be willing to fight against whatever it is that threatens. We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?

but as chairman I was already looking at the meeting as something of a chore. I

rules aren't useful unless they are enforced.

Where the Athenians were tepid with regard to individual purpose in the absence of community, they were religious in their belief in individual capacity. They passionately advocated the notion of an order to the universe, and insisted repeatedly that mankind had not just the capacity but the obligation to uncover that order.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Liberty is a duty, not a right

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

nothing is certain in life except death and taxes

Most people return small favors, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with ingratitude.