Quotes About Obligation

Well, everybody seems to be doing it, I said, so I suppose I had better make the thing unanimous. Here's a fiver. Why, thank you, sir. This is extremely - It won't seem much compared with these vast sums you've been acquiring. Oh, I assure you, sir. And I don't know why I'm giving it to you. No, sir. Still, there it is. Thank you very much, sir.

Bertie, it is imperative that you marry. But, dash it all... Yes! You should be breeding children to... No, really, I say, please! I said, blushing richly. Aunt Agatha belongs to two or three of these women's clubs, and she keeps forgetting she isn't in the smoking-room.

And if I didn't burn the thing, how else could I get rid of it? Fellows on the battle-field eat dispatches to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy, but it would have taken me a year to eat Uncle Willoughby's Recollections.

he who discards his worldly duties can justify himself only by assuming some kind of responsibility toward a much larger family." The

Those who are too good for this world are adorning some other," Sri Yukteswar remarked. "So long as you breathe the free air of earth, you are under obligation to render grateful service. He alone who has fully mastered the breathless state is free from cosmic imperatives. I will not fail to let you know when you have attained the final perfection.

Forget. So there was my duty laid out in front of me, as simple and clear as a bowl of water: Remember.

Do the nieces come to see her? Oh, yes, now and then, out of a spirit of duty. But they dread these visits. They know they will have to sit and listen for hours to half-veiled reproaches. They will be treated to an endless litany of bitter complaints and self-pitying sighs. And when this woman can no longer bludgeon, browbeat, or bully her nieces into coming to see her, she has one of her "spells." She develops a heart attack.

but I felt accountable and compelled to help in some way.

Brother Lawrence, who was a kitchen worker and cook, remarks. Our sanctification does not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for God's sake which we commonly do for our own…. It is a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times. We are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the season of prayer.5

Dogma is what you have to believe, whether you believe it or not. And law is what you must do, whether it is good for you or not. What

The price of greatness...is responsibility - Winston Churchill

Never make a promise you cannot keep.

The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

Churchill: "El precio de la grandeza…es la responsabilidad".

Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

Ah, well, thought Charlie, ours is not to wonder why, ours is but to do and die.

I think we underestimate how much of our own lives we devote to trying to meet the expectations of the dead, continued Dave. We don't even think about it, we just do.

But how just it has been! And how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felicity by their experience...

it doesn't make any difference. Whether we're being lied to or not, we still have to get up and go to work and pay the bills and all the rest.

Responsibility educates.

"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law."

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

"I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny."