Quotes About Obligation

The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty.

When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated to give them a profit.

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.

Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.

He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

If people disagree with me and want to articulate it, that's not only their right but almost their obligation.