Quotes About Obligation

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

Unlike debentures, the 15.7 million dollars of participating preferred shares did not require repayment on a particular date. Effectively, International Match had shifted from a strict debt obligation to a more flexible equity obligation.

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

Great power involves great responsibility

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

it's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

As soon as I learned from my mother that there was a place called school that I must attend willy nilly --- a place where you were obliged to think about matters prescribed by a 'teacher,' not about matters decided by yourself---I was appalled.

The prince is the first servant of his state.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

Why do you care?" "Because someone has to.

However," he continued, "duty should not be accepted without question. Duty can be a motive, but should not be an excuse.

To Szeth's people, a dying request was sacred.

A man doesn't have to like his duty. He just has to do it." She

You can be moral without following the law, and you can be immoral while following the law.

those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone.

Promised?" Kaladin asked. "I don't remember a promise." "You grunted." "I… grunted?

A man doesn't have to like his duty. He just has to do it.

My lack of capacity doesn't change the kingdom's needs.

In days long ago when there were no spiritual directors or brilliant commentaries on Scripture, fidelity to God's will was the whole of spirituality.