Quotes About Obligation

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

On my honor, I will do my best To do my duty To God and my country

That her son had developed all the latent characteristics of a three-dollar bill escaped her notice—all she knew was that she was glad he lived in Birmingham because he was oppressively devoted to her, which meant that she felt obliged to make an effort to reciprocate, which she could not with any spontaneity do.

No, she didn't. Alexandra saw what Maycomb saw: Maycomb expected every daughter to do her duty. The duty of his only daughter to her widowed father after the death of his only son was clear: Jean Louise would return and make her home with Atticus; that was what a daughter did, and she who did not was no daughter.

In the name of God, do your duty.

the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.

We have to do a lot of things we don't want to do, Jean Louise." She blazed. "What kind of answer is that?

Melbourne said once, that the only real duties of government were to prevent crime and preserve contracts, to which I will add one thing since I find myself reluctantly in the twentieth century: and to provide for the common defense.

So far as freedom is concerned, it is of course true that freedom is commonly understood to be a necessary condition of moral responsibility.

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."  —Stephen Crane

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

She had taken her vows and then they had taken her, and the forces amassed against her were greater than love, greater than obligation. They were elemental, heavy as a dead planet.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

WWE doesn't owe us anything.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

I feel like I owe the Yankee fan base my A-game.

I had brothers and sisters and did chores and had to pick up the dog crap in the yard and mow the lawn and do all the normal things that kids have to do.

Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

Contemporary families can be made in many ways. You might step up when relatives or friends are unable to meet their obligation to their children. You might marry someone who is already a parent. Or you might, as in my case, yearn to create a family and decide to adopt.

I didn't pay my taxes for years.