Quotes About Obligation

Non vi sono scuse per la crudeltà, ma - in un orfanotrofio - forse si è obbligati a negare amore; se non riesce a negare amore, a trattenerti dall'amare, creerai un orfanotrofio che nessun orfano lascerà volentieri. Creerai un Homer Wells: cioè un vero orfano, dato che la sua casa sarà sempre a St. Clouds.

Accept no favors, and you'll never owe any

Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do. And if ever there was something I didn't want to do, this was surely it: to deal with the mother of a dead novelist and, worst of all, to have to read a manuscript that she said was great, and that, as it turned out, was a badly smeared, scarcely readable carbon.

Su obligación es servir en silencio lo que le pidan. Si quisiéramos incluirle a usted en nuestra conversación, se lo habríamos indicado. Sepa que estamos discutiendo cuestiones personales de no poca importancia.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

Duty cannot exist without faith

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

Nothing is more important than commitments and keeping up to them.

Those who dont want to supply what life demands suffer the consequences.

Life has this funny and annoying way of making you feel guilty for things you failed to do.

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

The primary obligation of educators is to assist in the realization of each student's full humanity.

The muster roll for the 1300 campaign noted that Hugh fitz Heyr, a Shropshire landowner of little consequence, was obliged by the terms of his tenure to serve in the king's war 'with bow and arrow'. It also noted that 'as soon as he saw the enemy he shot his arrow, then went home'.

few may have served out of obligation, for land they had already been given,

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We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.