Quotes About Obligation

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can't live without it.

How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is biology enables, culture forbids. Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It's culture that obliges people to realize some possibilities while forbidding others.

Uma das poucas leis férreas da história é que os luxos tendem a se tornar necessidades e a gerar novas obrigações. Uma vez que as pessoas se acostumam a um certo luxo, elas o dão como garantido.

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

In Hinduism and Buddhism, dharma has various connotations, but generally it means cheerfully fulfilling your moral and ethical duty. Doing the right thing.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Contrary to popular belief, no one owes you anything. Even your folks have met their obligations once you reach eighteen," Dani pointed out. "You could always refuse." "Not really." Red flooded Starr's face. "We have three choices. The dorm. You and Spence. Or no more money from our parents." "Yep." Ivy snickered. "They have us by the checkbook.

As the noted author and intellectual W .E. B. Du Bois says, we've given all of our economic power away. "When you owe another, your freedom is impaired," Du Bois counseled. "Your ability to decide your destiny is tainted by the amount you owe.

God has a need one that only mankind can fulfil

Every man shall bear his own burden.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

To pass the buck to their constituents, as so many Republican senators did, was to shirk their constitutionally mandated duty. This

Truth be told, she still preferred to lve life in the shadows, but duty called.

I don't want you back because you feel obligated to me, love," he said. "That's the devil of wedding vows - they make you do things for a person you maybe should run away from. Come back to me because you want to, not because you think you ought to. Do you understand?

Keep in touch. I suddenly realized how annoying that expression was. Like, Now it's your job to stay in contact with me. It said, I'm really just too lazy . I started to write back, to keep in touch , but decided I'd be lazy as well.

Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same.