Quotes About Obligation

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

I would walk forever ..... this is not an option ... This is a deal!.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Love is a gift, not an obligation, follow your heart and always trust the person you love.

A promise created gives hope, a promise kept is commitment.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

I hate when a man feels I'm obligated to disclose my marital status to somebody I don't even know. Even this bullshit about status itself as if married and spinster are the only two choices for defining myself. Or because I'm a woman I'm supposed to have a status at all.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things "because we're supposed to.

When I advise, "Don't do anything that isn't play!" some take me to be radical, even insane, I earnestly believe, however, that an important form of self-compassion is to make choices motivated purely by our desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, duty, or obligation

I earnestly believe, however, that an important form of self-compassion is to make choices motivated purely by our desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, duty, or obligation.

When we use language which denies choice (for example, words such as should, have to, ought, must, can't, supposed to, etc.), our behaviors arise out of a vague sense of guilt, duty, or obligation.