Quotes About Obligation

Once I'm on the phone, I just can't say no. I sometimes find myself doing things for three or four organizations in one day.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

I've always been an outgoing guy. But I know as an athlete, I have an obligation to be a role model.

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

I would describe myself as outspoken. Not political. Outspoken about what I want to say. There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

It's not something I wanted to do, go overseas, but it was something that had to be done.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

There's no greater joy in life than enjoying power without responsibility. - Mukta Prajapati

She would have pointed out that Sundew had a duty to marry Mandrake and raise superpowered danger-babies to destroy their enemies.

Therefore, we are obligated to adjust his ranking accordingly. All present advisors have been consulted, and by general agreement, we are slotting my other son, Winter, into first place in the rankings.

And if you have time, please could you also make sure she's not arrested for treason? That would be great, thanks.

Where there was no equality there was no companionship: when a man was obliged to say 'Yes, sir,' his agreement was of no worth even if it happened to be true.

they had been summoned to Mexico for a family emergency and had been unable to return.

Each surrender was for her the pledge that another surrender would be demanded of her, and she acquitted herself of each as though of a duty performed; it was odd that she should have been completely satisfied by it, and yet she was. Sir