Quotes About Obligation

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

I used to believe in freedom of speech until I had to pay my first phone bill.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi ' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz

orgullo es para cuando se tienen veinte o treinta años. Salir adelante con mis hijos era una obligación, el único escape para que la sociedad no se encarara conmigo y me dedicara la mirada inexorable que se reserva a los padres desalmados. No cabía otra solución y salí adelante. Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz.

No cabía otra solución y salí adelante. Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.

I think love is an imperative. It obligates you.

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

Only God can make the appointment, but only you can keep the appointment.

When your life is over, the world will ask you only one question: 'Did you do what you were supposed to do?'" That's not just a good question. That's the question... It cannot be answered with words. It must be answered with your life.

I just accept whatever mission you give me, salute, and go do it. That's what I signed up for. I remember that JFK said to bear any burden, pay any price to assure liberty.

There's no such thing as a free lunch." Consciously or unconsciously, nearly everyone keeps score of favors and gestures, and everyone is sensitive to being shortchanged.

We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!

It freaks me out a little bit. In my humanness, if I had been challenged in such a manner, with Satan saying, "If you believe your God is strong enough to save you, why don't you just jump," I would have felt an obligation to prove God accurate. But that is not what Christ did. Because Christ did not lean on a few choice Scriptures that supported His life perception.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

In a sense we are born in hock: with the national debt hovering around $ 18 trillion, each new baby delivered in America takes her first breath owing approximately $ 57,000.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.