Quotes About Obligation

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.

Yo, I don't care bout everyone's questions im just here so I don't get fined by Papa Pete.

I would like to suggest that the overriding belief systems of certain cultures encourage born sociopaths to compensate cognitively for what they are missing emotionally. In contrast with our extreme emphasis on individualism and personal control, certain cultures, many in East Asia, dwell theologically on the interrelatedness of all living things. Interestingly, this value is also the basis of conscience, which is an intervening sense of obligation rooted in a sense of connectedness.

I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.

I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow shall keep an angel from her appointed assignment.

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle.

Even if the tutoring was only for one hour a day, he told his mother, 'I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure'.

For we have vowed enough in baptism, more than we can ever fulfill; if we give ourselves to the keeping of this one vow, we shall have all we can do.

For a man does not serve that he may put men under obligations. He does not distinguish between friends and enemies or anticipate their thankfulness or unthankfulness, but he most freely and most willingly spends himself and all that he has, whether he wastes all on the thankless or whether he gains a reward.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do Edmund Burke (1729–97)

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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

There was one obligation that the Romans imposed on all those who came under their control: namely, to provide troops for the Roman armies.

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Duty . That was a word I hated as much as tradition .

You are Rahtan, Kazi. You have a promise to keep, and you will betray him eventually.

I have to have dinner with my mother at nine and after that I won't be fit for human society.

Debt requires you to transfer your future wealth to your creditors.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

When we believe ourselves to be alone, we have no responsibility to this world and are answerable to no one.