Quotes About Obligation

I don't feel an obligation to go by the rankings - we all know how those rankings are produced anyway. I want to go out there and fight the money fight.

In times of difficulty we all have to understand our responsibilities.

I wouldn't want to disappoint my family, my friends, my fans.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

I'm at my country's disposition.

Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.

Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

Keep your eye on what you're responsible to and what you're responsible for, and that'll keep you right.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.

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

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

I don't get time to hang out with my friends because every time I make a plan, my agent tells me I can't go. I'm used to it.

No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.

Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it, we reinforce the notion that reading is something we should do, but telly is something that we want to do.

You can't have it all one way - be on the telly and the radio and make lots of money - and not offer anything to your followers when they need you.

A]ll the...people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.