Quotes About Obligation

Now I don't know where you come from if you think that you deserve a trophy, or a parade or are even guaranteed a thank-you for doing what's good and what's right to others, and being kind to them and respectful but in life, you probably will not get these things. But that's not why we we ought to do good we ought to do good, not because it's special or extra, but because it's the minimum of what we owe to one another.

You cannot choose your family, but you may have to remind yourself that you love them, because you do (whether you like it or not).

most people don't want to be free. Because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Humans were always doing things they didn't like doing. In fact, to my best estimate, at any one time only point three percent of humans were actively doing something they liked doing, and even when they did so, they felt an intense guilt about it and were fervently promising themselves they'd be back doing something horrendously unpleasant very shortly.

I'm saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility.

The honour of being admitted into communion with God, and of being employed for him, does not exempt us from the duties of our relations and callings in this world.

Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.

Those that sincerely design and endeavour to do their duty may in faith beg of God direction and strength for the doing of it.

When the President asks you to do something, you'd be surprised how keen you are to oblige," Syme said.

Yours is the idea, yours the duty.

The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation  to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Smatrao sam da me mora razumjeti, ako me voli, da me mora razumjeti i kad ništa ne kažem, mora biti na mojoj strani i kad nemam pravo. Zaboravljaju?i da bi to trebalo da bude i moja obaveza, okrenuo sam se protiv nje, stavljaju?i ih zajedno na jednu stranu. Sad sam sâm, ima zadovoljstva i u tome. I ne želim više da ih uvjerim, da im objasnim sebe, ho?u da imam pravo. Jer imam pravo, iako to nema nikakva zna?aja.

Nepovratno se ose?am kao besku?nik. Nije to sasvim loše, nemam obaveza ni ograni?enja, samo je pomalo prazno. Svejedno mi je kuda ?u po?i kada završim posao. Uvijek sam želio tu potpunu slobodu, a nikud ne polazim, nijednu mogu?nost ne iskoriš?ujem, niti zapravo znam kakve su. Hodamo bez cilja, tražimo se, a kad se na?emo, govorimo o ratu.

Je li vlast od Boga? Ako nije, odakle joj pravo da nam sudi? Ako jest, kako može da pogriješi? Ako nije, sruši?emo je; ako jest, sluša?emo je. Ako nije od Boga, šta nas obavezuje da trpimo nepravde? Ako je od Boga, jesu li to nepravde, ili kazna zbog viših ciljeva. Ako nije, onda je nada mnom i nad tobom i nad svima nama izvršeno nasilje, i onda smo opet mi krivi što ga podnosimo.

Ali ta slabost, i taj strah pred neslu?enim teško?ama, ta želja da se legne i umre, da se odustane i primi sudbina, ne smiju sad da me zaustave. Nikakav zamor ni klonulost ne mogu me sprije?iti da izvršim obavezu. Moram. Idi naprijed, poslije umri.

I rije? obavezuje, i ona je ?in, obavezuje me pred drugima ali i preda mnom.

The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.

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

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

The path of duty lies in what is near, and man seeks for it in what is remote.

Olivia made a face. "Piers is such an eldest brother!" she said. "He patronizes me. He's come up to town because my mother wrote about Toby and he thinks he ought to see him. Not wants to see him—ought. That's Piers for you!

All living things have an obligation to live as best they can, no matter what pain comes to them.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.