Quotes About Obligation

It is our mission to forestall our duties

la mayoría de personas disfrutaba de seguir al líder. Les liberaba de la obligación de pensar por sí mismos.

And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?

I'm taking on another person's memories, another person's family, another person's life. Love obscured all of that because if it did not, then nobody would marry at all, and there had to be marriage, didn't there, if people wanted to continue, have children, keep everything going…

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni warmed to the theme. "And you could have yet another list," he said. "Things that other people should do, but don't seem to be doing." Mma Ramotswe thought for a while. "That could be a very long list," she said. "There are many people who do not do what they should be doing.

Number 1," read Dr Fairbairn. "People making me do things I don't want to do. I hate this. I hate this. Every day I have to do things that other people want me to do and it leaves me no time to do any of the things I want to do. And nobody asks me what I want to do, anyway.

Von Igelfeld wondered whether there was a moral obligation to read a letter. Surely the moral principles involved were the same as those which applied when somebody addressed a remark to one. One does not have to answer; but inevitably does.

If A says to B please tell C something, does B have any obligation to do so? It would depend, thought Isabel, on whether B had agreed to take on the duty of passing on the message. If he had not, then a liberal individualist philosopher would probably say that he did not have to exert himself. That was liberal individualism, of course, with which Isabel did not always agree. Don't go swimming with a liberal individualist, she told herself; he might not save you if you started to drown.

So it was in Botswana, almost everywhere; ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or time, linked one person to another, weaving across the country a human blanket of love and community. And in the fibres of that blanket there were threads of obligation that meant that one could not ignore the claims of others. Nobody should starve; nobody should feel that they were outsiders; nobody should be alone in their sadness.

Isabel looked at her. "Five pieces? Isn't that the Government recommendation?" "It's none of their business," said Jamie. Isabel disagreed. "Oh, I think it is. If the Government has to pick up the bill when we get ill, then surely it has the right to tell us how to avoid getting ill in the first place.

The manacles we forge for ourselves might be comfortable ones, may not chafe too much, and yet they are manacles nonetheless – bonds of family, of profession, of debt, of personal obligation. Or they may be woven of the simple and only too familiar lassitude that prevents us from doing anything to disturb the established patterns of our life.

We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply; for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

We are never quits towards those who have done us a favour,' said Dantès. 'Even when one ceases to owe them money, one owes them gratitude.

Paul's evangelism, his letters suggest, has two great motivations: a sense of obligation derived from what God has done for him and commissioned him to do for others, and a desire that God will be glorified by as great a number of people as possible. We are to imitate Paul by extending God's grace in the gospel just as he did.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Patriotism is not only patrolling the nation's borders, but doing ones duties perfectly.

Girls countin on me to be there like missin rubbers.

Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice.

Necessity brings him here, not pleasure.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.