Quotes About Obligation

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.

I did not feel that he owed it to me. And I did not feel like I owed it to him. We owed it to each other, which is something different.

When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?

L'unica cosa più dolorosa dell'essere obliatori attivi è essere rammentatori inerti.

Children bury their dead parents, because the dead need to be buried. Parents do not need to bring their children into the world, but children need to bring their parents out of it.

No se concibe que una criatura racional pueda ser obligada, sino aconsejada o exhortada, porque nadie puede desobedecer la razón sin renunciar al derecho de ser considerado una criatura racional.

Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.

whereof one was a page that held up his train, and

He pensado muchas veces en los extraños movimientos de la afectividad. Octavio, si en verdad no quería ninguna relación conmigo, no tenía por qué comunicármelo por teléfono, sino simplemente olvidarme. Luego pensé que la mentalidad de oficinista está muy arraigada y ciertas personas se sienten obligadas a presentar su renuncia.

Posible, pero no interesante —respondió Lönnrot—. Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menor obligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que la realidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero no las hipótesis.

Cand cineva se hotaraste sa emigreze intr-o tara indepartata, isi impune in mod fatal obligatia de a se afirma in aceasta tara.

Scruples were for imbeciles. His clear duty was to make himself happy.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Publishing is not, of course, dependent on the individual taste of the publisher," Perkins replied to one reader of Hemingway's novel. "He is under an obligation to his profession which binds him to bring out a work which in the judgment of the literary world is significant in its literary qualities and is a pertinent criticism of the civilization of the time.

We weren't trying to be kind. We've brought you these things because you absolutely need them. That's all.' -- Ágota Kristóf. The Notebook

Sometime duty calls at ten p.m. on a Wednesday night.

This is another aspect of nik??, the obligation to satisfy one's spouse. Nik?? and unconsummated marriage are mutually exclusive. Abstinence of a hundred and twenty days is a maximum not to be exceeded in any circumstances.

This is the burden we all have to bear, to live a useful life

Lie heavy on him earth, for he laid many a heavy load on thee (suggested epitaph)

My own inclinations must not be followed--to duty I sacrifice them.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Denn was auch immer auf Erden besteht, besteht durch Ehre und Treue. Wer heute die alte Pflicht verrät, verrät auch morgen die neue.