Quotes About Obligation

Duty doesn't always fit comfortably.

Because I was raised to believe that every man has a responsibility, and the strongest man has the heaviest responsibilities...

Soviet citizens were masters of self-representation as the deserving poor; they regarded it as the state's obligation to provide them with food, clothing, and shelter.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of their obligation to checks and balances, but not the intent.

When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.

Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

When you allow a young lady in your care to stumble on the ice and . . . sprain her ankle, it is clearly understood by all her relatives and friends that you are obliged to make amends by marrying her.

She would find it very difficult to say an outright no if she did not have a ready-made excuse.

It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of help which you can supply you have a human duty to supply it, even if it could inconvenience or even hurt you to do so. This, after all, is how the greatest and best deeds in the world have been done, and though the children did not say this aloud, they knew it inside themselves without even thinking about it.

His voice was quite flat, dull, almost. 'You were prepared to take chances - once.' 'Myself, yes. But this was Philippe. I had no right to take a chance on Philippe. I didn't dare. He was my charge - my duty.' The miserable words sounded priggish and unutterably absurd. 'I - I was all he had. Besides that, it couldn't be allowed to matter.' 'What couldn't.' 'That you were all I had.

You may give up your purpose; but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not.

Pero tenemos la obligación de esconder nuestro dolor para no aumentar el de los que nos rodean.

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.