Quotes About Obligation

Should is what you don't want to do, but do anyway. That isn't me.

I understood what a mysterious and oppressive obligation I had, to be happy, and how I had almost failed it, and would be likely to fail it, every time, and she would not know.

AFFIANCED, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain.

A lot of wasted time, to the Dogman's mind, but once you've been fool enough to ask for a task, you better do the one you're given.n

Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered.

Conscience is an excuse not to do what needs doing.

He never had any choices.

No one likes to shake hands with the man who empties the latrine pits eitherm but pits have to be emptied all the same. Otherwise the world fills up with shit.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed. W

Aja como se todo mundo dependesse de você! Porque depende mesmo!

Some things you do, not because they're pleasant, but because they have to be done.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

The Seventh Year In Deuteronomy 15, there was a law God gave the people of Israel that said every seventh year they had to release any Hebrew slaves. If you were Hebrew and owed another person money that you couldn't repay, they could take you in as a slave and make you work full-time until you paid them back. But every seventh year, if you were a part of God's chosen people, you had a special advantage. You got released. No matter

Love can do much, but duty more.

Law is mighty, mightier necessity.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

We all owe death a life.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.