Quotes About Obligation

Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more.

A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made." The

You're already into me for nine talents.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

Es herrschte Lichtzwang

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

To be part of God's redemptive rescue is not only a high calling but a moral obligation.

We do what we do," she said. "We do what we must." "Right," she said. "What we must.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

don't, usually. But one of the other girls is sick, and I said I'd fill in." "Oh." "I'll be back by suppertime.

An obligation is a rope ... by which we are tied. Dwell on that image. Here am I with a rope around my neck. We must allow for the other end of the rope. You are holding that. I am under an obligation to you: the picture is of this rope between us, and you in control; the rope is round my neck but in your hand.

OW: It doesn't matter whether you mind it or not—you do it. HJ: Some people do it, and some don't. OW: Yes. But I'm a terribly guilty-conscience person.

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

There are things in your life that you don't want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do and go what and where you please. That is not how life works. This is one of those times when you must do and go what and where you do not want to do or go.

Roman citizenship became universal when it was no longer a privilege but a burden

All part of the service.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Why?' he asked. 'Absolution.' He didn't get it, they never did. His death was a duty, ordered by guilt. Greg had learnt all about duty from the Army

Without its captain, the blackhawk would have to obey an Edenist.

He would return again and again to the same themes over the years, with different details and different emphases, but always with the same underlying message: the inherent nobility not so much of man as of FREEDOM, and the implied responsibility - no, the OBLIGATION - for each of us to be as different as our individuated natures allowed us to be. To be different, in Sam's words, IN THE EXTREME.

The NATO treaty says that an attack on any party would automatically be regarded as an attack on all. Instead, the ANZUS treaty says only that an attack on any of the signatories would oblige the others to 'act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes'.