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Quotes About Obligation

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
~ Queen Latifah
I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.
~ Jack Kirby
Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
~ Thomas Otway
No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.
~ Kate DiCamillo
We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.
~ Selma Dabbagh, Out of It
Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.
~ Stonewall Jackson
The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
~ Socrates
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
~ Daniel Webster
Honor is a harder master than the law.
~ Mark Twain
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
~ Pierre Corneille
Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of
~ William Shakespeare
Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.
~ Brett Favre
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
~ George Washington
The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.
~ Shannon L. Alder
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
~ Bob Ney
Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.
~ Jon Bernthal
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
In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.
~ Yehuda Berg
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.
~ Francis Parkman
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
~ A. P. Herbert
As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.
~ George W. Bush
What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country." -- Willie "Drafted
~ Rich Allan, Drafted
I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.
~ Rachel Caine, Last Breath