Quotes About Obligation

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

The public must and will be served.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

He that dies pays all his debts.

There is no virtue like necessity.

Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.

I do perceive here a divided duty.

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

Is it so nominated in the bond?

Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.

He that dies pays all debts.

Let him look to his bond.

Stern daughter of the voice of God!O Duty!

Duty were our games.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

If you believe in democracy, are you not thereby obliged to accept, without discrimination, the fall-outs that come with a democratic choice, even if this means the termination of the democratic process itself?

No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.

I appreciate the chance to visit my mom on Mother's Day -- it's like taking a refresher course in guilt.

To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad.

The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.