Quotes About Obligation

Kahlan sighed impatiently. "Richard, you promised Zedd we would go to Aydindril." "I did. But I didn't promise him when.

loyalty is earned, my dear, not commanded.

All, no matter their means, must have an investment in their freedom, and will pay their part. This principle is law, and inviolate.

But the past is past, and we must now go on with what must be done. The prophecies say that the greatest danger now lies before us.

Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.

If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.

I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.

She loved her brothers, when she reminded herself to, in a dutiful sort of way, although she generally remembered them as a collection of loud noises in trousers.

Miniature rock murals are everywhere. Who were these artists, these scribes? When were they here? And what did they witness? Time has so little meaning in the center of the desert. The land holds a collective memory in the stillness of open spaces. Perhaps our only obligation is to listen and remember.

But she couldn't shake off her annoyance at her dad, at her brothers, at Father Donnelly, at every man who presumed to tell a woman what her duty was.

the biggest lever for change is not a change in self-belief but a fundamental change in the way one sees and regards one's connections with and obligations to others.

The biggest lever for change is not a change merely in self-belief but a fundamental change in the way people see and regard their connections and obligations to others.

If I have an outward mindset, knowing that the organization's success depends on my colleague's success as well as my own, I will feel an obligation to help my colleague succeed.

IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security.

Protecting life is the primary obligation of someone who has the bodhisattva ideal.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

I've got a contract that keeps me around a few more years.