Quotes About Obligation

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

But her chief emotion was pity: for father's embarrassment at having to tell her this, for the staggerings of a man obliged, even for a little time, to throw away the crutches of untruth.

Responsibilty, she discovered, was a sort of drug.

However, if you accept the actual invitation, no other appointment—unless with a surgeon or an undertaker—can take precedence.

Menschen konnten nichts anderes sein als Menschen. Sie zogen sich Roben an oder Handschellen und taten, was von ihnen erwartet wurde. In diesem Haus bestand ihre Aufgabe darin, den Phantomschmerz einer amputierten Weltordnung zu erzeugen.

Would you like to join your sister and the others? Or would you like a reprieve from the crowd?... Thank you, but I don't need a reprieve from my duty and I never will. There's a boast that's likely to come back like a bad cold.

emperador? —Antes de que el emperador os reciba, vos y yo tenemos que hablar; estoy seguro de que llegaremos a un acuerdo satisfactorio para vuestro rey y el mío. —Os recuerdo que sois francés como yo y estáis obligado a Luis. —¡Ah, mi buen rey Luis!

He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.

You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation.

When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

I'm a pretty accommodating person, and I want to be the best I can at my job. So if someone asked me to do an interview or something that didn't fit into my schedule, I'd basically say yes to everybody.

Ignorance of the law is not excuse for breaking it. Make no mistake about it,

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

No woman is owed economic support, children, respect or love. The woman who accepts and lives by correct principles thereby earns the right to make certain demands upon her husband; being female entitles her to nothing.

I have been blinded, as many of us have been blinded by our needs. I had thought of only my family--this was the limit to my responsibility, and therefore, my vision. -Istak

Why do you butcher your carabao and feed a throng because your son is getting a wife?" Father always blustered to them who come asking for loans. But always, in the end, the tenants got the money--what they needed for a "decent" funeral, a baptism, a wedding. And as their debts piled up, they promised, "Next harvest will be good...

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

Nadie tiene la obligación de hacer el bien, todos tenemos la obligación de no hacer el mal.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

The second is the release from the principle of authority, that is, from any obligation to obey parents, the Church, the state, and whoever places restrictions in the name of the common good. The

No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing his respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other and between which it is difficult to choose.

When law and force keep a man within the bounds of justice, they impose nothing upon him but a mere negation. They only oblige him to abstain from doing harm. They violate neither his personality, his liberty, nor his property. They only guard the personality, the liberty, the property of others.