Quotes About Obligation

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.

Actual experience subjects and exposes us to the actual world, in which we must make a living under the obligation to be honest, form opinions under the obligation to be just, and in general suffer the mysteries, obscurities, and complexities that make truth difficult and righteousness imperfect.

If we have equality and nothing else — no compassion, no magnanimity, no courtesy, no sense of mutual obligation and dependence, no imagination — then power and wealth will have their way; brutality will rule.

You gave me your promise, was the reply, spoken with the same immovable self-possession. You must write for me, or break your word.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Y son los buenos los que no pueden rechazar la cuenta cuando se la presentan. Por la sencilla razón de que les pueden obligar a pagarla

the idea (not mine: your great-grandfather's) being that even at eleven a man should already have behind him one year of paying for, assuming responsibility for, the space he occupied, the room he took up, in the world's (Jefferson, Mississippi's, anyway) economy.

We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again, -Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in the newspapers every morning. The masses, the fetid masses, he says, bringing all his weight to his feet.-How can they even suspect a self who can do more, when they live under absolutely no obligation. There are so few beautiful things in the world...

No matter how you love, you cannot repay the debts contracted in the loved one's past, nor interfere with how the loved one tries to repay them. But you must pay, you do though you cannot.

But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.

Your father is dying. Drat! said the Prince, That means I shall have to get married.

Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays—but he always pays—yes, above all, he pays.

are those who have neglected their duties, and consequently have failed to get their rights. The

What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose.

demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it.

Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home.

Think of your emotions as messages that give you the freedom, rather than the obligation, to respond. Fear protects. Regret teaches. Sadness releases. Joy uplifts. Empathy unites. Emotions

You don't pay taxes–they take taxes.

You don't pay taxes-they take taxes.