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Quotes About Obligation

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.
~ James Ellroy
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
~ Bruce Babbitt
My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
~ Claire McCaskill
When you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy. I just don't think you can do the work if you're not healthy.
~ Donald Trump
What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.
~ Jillian Medoff
As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.
~ Josh Fox
Forty-five million people hit that button for 'In These Streets.' When you find out you have that kind of popularity, you better use it. It's called responsibility.
~ Jenifer Lewis
I have been trying for years to perform in America. Now the first time I am here there is a strike. I must play. It is what I must do.
~ Mikis Theodorakis
Human nature being what it is, if you told me you were going to give me one dollar with no strings attached, I probably wouldn't question the gift too much. But if you told me you wanted to give me one hundred dollars with no obligation, I'd have to think about it for a minute before accepting.
~ Tony Evans
I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can.
~ Robert Kennedy
North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian nightmare that North Koreans face.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
~ Catherine Deneuve
Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.
~ Thales
An embedded growth obligation is how fast a structure has to grow in order to maintain its honest positions.
~ Eric Weinstein
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.
~ Ron Silver
I think migration is a right, but it should be an option, not an obligation.
~ Nayib Bukele
My parents' sacrifice and hard work obligated me to be successful, it wasn't an option to fail.
~ Wayne Messam
Giving back was an expectation, not an option.
~ Casey Wasserman
It was clear from very early on that I would work in the family company. There was not really ever another option or idea.
~ Antoine Arnault
My relationship with Joe Silva has always been him saying 'hey I want you to fight this day' and it's like alright sounds good. I don't really look at it as an option.
~ Travis Browne
Respect for the rule of law is not optional; it's fundamental.
~ Frans Timmermans
Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom.
~ Eric Metaxas
I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.
~ Rafael dos Anjos