Quotes About Obligation

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist." The Universe replied: "That's fine." Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.

Opportunity, not obligation, is the cornerstone of religion, the basis of all spirituality. So long as you see it the other way around, you will have missed the point.

For true love is always free, and obligation cannot exist in the space of love.

If you see your decision to express your love in a particular way with only one particular other as a sacred promise, never to be broken, the day may come when you will experience that promise as an obligation—and you will resent it. Yet if you see this decision not as a promise, made only once, but as a free choice, made over and over, that day of resentment will never come.

Absolute Power demands absolutely nothing.

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men.