Quotes About Obligation

If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

I have to understand how we are going to market the movie. We view marketing as an extension of content creation... Every time a consumer sees our movie, in whatever form, our obligation is to entertain the audience.

A dream is better than obligation.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

If we're going to continue making advances up there in space, then we have an obligation to do the same down here on Earth.

Scoring a goal feels a bit like a liberating act. It is a mix of sensations that only strikers can feel in their own guts. We work for that, to score. It is like a commitment, an obligation we take with ourselves.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

In some states, the attorney general is appointed, but in New York state it's an independently elected position. The New York attorney general has an obligation to the people first, to her conscience and to the rule of law, not to the governor, and not to the legislature.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

I feel an obligation to use black dancers because there must be more opportunities for them, but not because I'm a black choreographer talking to black people.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

I've been given benefits from the day I was born. A loving family. A great education. So I see it as an obligation, as a Christian and as a human being, to help.

The motivation when you put on a United shirt is big and the obligation is always big because we represent the greatest club in England and one of biggest in the world.

Being a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, I have the obligation to always defend myself well on the ground.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, I have never made a run for me. Records meant nothing. The team was important.

To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.