Quotes About Obligation

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

England expects every man to do his duty

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Man cannot choose his duties.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

He who is quick to borrow is slow to pay.