Quotes About Obligation

The government isn't the mob, Harry. Aren't they? I asked. Pay them money every year to protect you, and God help you if you don't.

And we owe them the gesture of helping to make their future more secure after what we took from them.

Don't be a moron, Harry," I said. "You came for the kid. He's safe. That's all you were obligated to do. Let it g—oh who am I kidding. There's a girl.

Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character.

He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.

As we ask God for some blessing, we have an obligation to participate ourselves in the fulfillment of those dreams, aspirations, hopes, and ideas.

I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.

You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Easy and difficult things are juat small parts of life, the rest are what have to be done.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Do your duty until it becomes your joy.

Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Remember one thing alone with success there's come obligation of doing hard work to maintain that state.

What you need to do is to perform well, do your duties but never ever expect anything in return nothing more nothing less.

Never let your sense of duty, loyalty, or obligation get in the way of doing what's right.

All actions start with commitment. A commitment is what for and the extent to which we are determined to proceed and achieve. It can be an inner commitment e.g. what we tell ourselves as a self-promise; it can be external commitment when we promise others to get a thing done; or undertake to get something as a binding on ourselves.

All or nothing. If I commit myself to you, you must commit yourself to me!

Honor your commitments...or stop making them.

Commitment: a pledge or promise; obligation. If you're gonna carry out its meaning 1st you have to know what it means.

He who promises runs in debt