Quotes About Obligation

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.

If you realize your responsibility you will realize your destiny.

Great Power doesn't come without great responsibilities.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Life isn't a choice or an obligation, its a gift, so embrace it as much as you can. You never know how much time you have left in life.

There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.

A man who seeks only the light, while shirking his responsibilities, will never find illumination. And one who keep his eyes fixed upon the sun ends up blind.

I would urge the driver to go as fast as he possibly could, so that the minutes might pass less slowly which I must spend without having anyone at hand to dispense me from the obligation myself to provide my sensibility

for want of feeling or immorality, once confessed, simplify life as effectively as loose morals: they remove the need to find excuses for blameworthy actions, and transform them into obligations of sincerity

Which was for me the true friend—Mme de Montmorency, so happy to ruffle my feelings and always so willing to oblige, or Mme de Guermantes, distressed at the least offense toward me and incapable of the least effort to be helpful?

Which was for me the true friend, Mme. de Montmorency, so glad always to annoy me and always so ready to oblige, or Mme. de Guermantes, distressed by the slightest offence that might have been given me and incapable of the slightest effort to be of use to me?

if, when Odette wished to go for a walk, in the morning, along the Avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne, his duty as a good husband had obliged him, though he had no desire to go out, to accompany her, carrying her cloak when she was too warm; and in the evening, after dinner, if she wished to stay at home, and not to dress, if he had been forced to stay beside her, to do what she asked;