Quotes About Obligation

No me gusta llenar de plomo a nadie, pero es mi trabajo

With the feeling of elation there came to Harriet a feeling of responsibility. She had avowed herself. She had signed herself away. It was public now. She was different. With all the glory, she wished she could have kept herself a secret.

Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case.

I am only the waves and particles of such as I was but I have a covenant with the Lord, the terms of it are simple: everything is required of me, for ever.

People do not know what they ought to say but only that they must say something.

Happy my lot in life if my desire coincides with my duty, and conversely; and most people's task in life is exactly to stay under their obligation, and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.

The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world?

the fact that he offered his best. What they leave out of Abraham's history is dread; for to money I have no ethical obligation, but to the son the father has the highest and most sacred obligation. Dread, however, is a perilous thing for effeminate natures, hence they forget it, and in spite of that they want to talk about Abraham.

necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with her. Another duty, another obligation, another potential source of guilt. Was I lying to her in lying with her?

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

Stress is being responsible for things that you have no control over.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

My own perception was that although it kind of sucks to be stuck in a contract you signed a long time ago, when you're having success, it gives you some leverage.

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

On n'est jamais quitte envers ceux qui nous ont obligés, dit Dantès, car lorsqu'on ne leur doit plus l'argent, on leur doit la reconnaissance.

Paid the last debt of nature

Athos en el caballo que debía a su mujer, Aramis en el caballo que debía a su amante, Porthos en el caballo que debía a su procuradora, y D'Artagnan en el caballo que debía a su buena fortuna, la mejor de las amantes.

But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.

Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers' rights, which he considered a privilege rather than a punishment. He was obligated to write ten pages, and handed in a tome of nearly fifty pages instead, duly footnoted, quoting from Thomas Paine and FDR. He couldn't wait for the next decade. Everything would change in the sixties, he told Franny. And, if they were lucky, they would then be free.

knew that from now on she would be held hostage by her responsibilities.