Quotes About Obligation

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

The forgotten man. He is the clean, quiet, virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I was not only a billionaire but the richest man in Turkey. It's a great feeling, but your responsibilities increase.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

When I turned 16, my dad made me sign a contract - he made us sign contracts for everything - that if I hit my car, I would be responsible for paying for it. I was in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and I tapped someone. It was so not a big deal, but I had to pay for it.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

You want to be paid. It is your job. It is like anyone else turning up at an office.

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn't hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

An actor cannot say no, it's against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it's very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

Fine" I said icily. "I'll do this. but i want it noted that I'm doing this against my will." "I think we already figured that out, Miss Hathaway.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.