Quotes About Obligation

At the end of the day, you're loyal to the people writing your checks.

I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5 years old.

I always forget about some of the things I've done, because you do 'em, and sometimes they don't come out, and... most of it's almost like daily chores or something. You check it off your list, and then it's gone.

Every day you live as a Christian, you are accountable to live for Christ.

I've always held a pretty strong civic duty.

Being a superstar is a big responsibility.

I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.

You shouldn't have to win the boss lottery in order to have a little bit of flexibility at work. Raising and supporting a family isn't just a financial obligation. What's important isn't just being able to put food on the dinner table - we want you to be at the dinner table, too.

We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

The president is under no obligation to sign the spending bills that Congress gives to him. And once that happens, once he says no, then you're supposed to negotiate.

I think black women feel an obligatory pressure to be stronger than everybody else, not necessarily to suppress the pain.

If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

I never drink on duty, she said coldly. Besides somebody might smell my breath. You're working for me now. All my employees are required to get liquored up from time to time. Besides, if you had a good dinner and were to eat a couple of the Chasers in the kitchen cabinet, nobody would smell your breath.

We often say silenced, which presumes someone attempted to speak. In my case, it wasn't a silencing because no speech was stopped; it never started, or it had been stopped so far back I don't remember how it happened. It never occurred to me to speak to the men who pressured me then, because it didn't occur to me that I had the authority to assert myself thus or that they had any obligation or inclination to respect my assertions, or that my words would do anything but make things worse.

We have no experience prioritizing our own joy or making an investment in ourselves. But it is very easy to say yes to responsibility and obligation. We are highly motivated when we can be of service to someone else.

The profound obligation to convince those with the wherewithal to give more of themselves to institutions and causes larger than themselves falls to you and your professional and lay colleagues. That is not a burden. It is a pleasure. That is not a job. It is a calling.

No me parece que haya que confundir la correspondencia con una deuda bancaria, si bien es cierto que en algo están ligadas: las cartas son como letras que se reciben y se deben. Uno siempre tiene algún remordimiento por algún amigo al que le debe una carta y no siempre la alegría de recibirlas compensa la obligación de contestarlas. Por otro lado, la correspondencia es un género perverso: necesita de la distancia y de la ausencia para prosperar.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

Learning/ is finding out/ what you already know./ Doing is demonstrating that/ you know it./ Teach is reminding others/ that they known just as well as you. Your only/ obligation in any life time/ is to be true to yourself. The simplest questions/ are the most profound./ Where were you born? Where is your home?/ Where are you going?/ What are you doing?/ Think about these/ once in a while, and/ watch your answers/ change.

Duty to his wife. Duty to his children. Duty to work, to committees, to charities. Duty to Lynette. Duty to the other women. It was exhausting. It demanded stamina. At times he amazed even himself.

He'd already made her for Kiriath and was backing off like a poet asked to wash dishes.