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Quotes About Obligation

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
~ Peter Ustinov
Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world
~ Shinichi Suzuki
We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.
~ Dorothy Day
Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
It's a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it's a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
loving your neighbour as yourself." The first lesson was that neither of these statements has anything to do with being nice. The second was that both are equations, rather than injunctions. If I am someone's friend, family member, or lover, then I am morally obliged to bargain as hard on my own behalf as they are on theirs. If I fail to do so, I will end up a slave, and the other person a tyrant. What good is that?
~ Jordan B. Peterson
And why does it so often seem to be the very people standing so visibly against prejudice who so often appear to feel obligated to denounce humanity itself?
~ Jordan B. Peterson
You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
One might think that a generation that has heard endlessly, from their more ideological teachers, about the rights, rights, rights that belong to them, would object to being told that they would do better to focus instead on taking responsibility.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
What might serve as a more sophisticated alternative to happiness? Imagine it is living in accordance with the sense of responsibility, because that sets things right in the future.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I had considered changing my phone number, but I was so far behind on my phone bill that NYNEX was after me too.
~ Jordan Belfort
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.
~ Jordan, Robert
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
~ Jose Marti
The post of honour is a private station.
~ Joseph Addison
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
~ Joseph Addison
Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.
~ Joseph Addison
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
~ Joseph Fort Newton
Not every musician should be obligated to reassure us that we are not zombies.
~ Joseph Lanza
He could not write what he wanted, but what he had to.
~ Joseph Pearce
Only then did she realize that she had completely forgotten to meet Crowfeather at twilight. CHAPTER
~ Erin Hunter
You have to go!" Needlepaw looked desperate. "Rain will be expecting me, and if I don't turn up, he might not like me anymore." Sympathy filled Violetkit's heart. Needlepaw was her only real friend in the Clan. She'd been so kind. No one else had taken her to see Twigkit. "Okay," she agreed.
~ Erin Hunter