Quotes About Obligation

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

We forget because we must And not because we will.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

Necessity has no law.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life. —James Baldwin

The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it.

The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty.

To survive being a parent is to fictionalize memory - to constantly re-create and re-contextualize the past, to invent a narrative that makes sense of the bizarre distortions introduced into one's life under the strain of responsibility, obligation, and love.

Plea bargain resulted in probation with standard obligatory rehabilitation. Obligation satisfied at Keith Richard Memorial Rehabilitation Center, New Los Angeles.

It's just a promise, that's all. A promise, and you do your best not to break it. Like a lease. There you go! You know, Dallas, that's almost wise.