Quotes About Obligation

Have we not done enough by our duty, Shireen? Do we not also have a duty to ourselves?

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient.

My thinking is this: Her original mother, she did what she must. I, her in-between mother, I did what I must. That Japanese couple, they also did what they must. One day, this little girl will grow up, and she will be doing what she must. So you see, we all do what we must

E po', che dicivano l'antichi che bazzicavano con la sapienzia? Dicivano: Monaci e parrini sentici la missa e stòccaci li rini. Che veniva a significare che i parrini servivano solo per sentirci dire la santa messa, doppo si poteva spezzarci la schina.

Responsibility is something you actively agree to.

Depression lowers self-esteem, but in many personalities, it does not eliminate pride, which is as good an engine for the fight as any I know. When you're so far down that love seems almost meaningless, vanity and a sense of obligation can save your life.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Americans are under no moral obligation to grant amnesty to people who have broken our laws. "The moral thing to do" is usually defined as "following the law." The fact that Democrats want 30 million new voters is not a good enough reason to ignore the law and screw over American workers, as well as legal immigrants already here.

However, I knew Mimi would want me to play, so I agreed to.

It was time to put Abby to work.

Even People of the Book must keep to themselves and "humbly" tithe (pay the jizya) to their Muslim rulers.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

AMENABLE  (AME'NABLE)   adj.[amesnable, Fr. amener quelqu'un, in the French courts, signifies, to oblige one to appear to answer a charge exhibited against him.]Responsible; subject so as to be liable to enquiries or accounts.

Both she and Lady L. are very urgent with me to shew them some of the letters in our correspondence; and Miss Grandison says, if that will encourage me to oblige them, they will shew me some of their brother's. — Who would not be tempted by such an exchange? I am more than half-afraid — But surely, in such an heap of stuff as I have written, there is something that I can read to them.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

A promise is an obligation. A just man will keep his promise, a generous man will go beyond it. — This is my rule.

El dolor es egoísta. El que sufre se siente único y piensa que el mundo le debe algo

I think it's your civic obligation to be utterly fucking furious about politics.

When people receive gifts, no matter how innocent, they feel obligated and try to reciprocate. It is a lovely reflex in everyday life and has furthered community bonding and artistic vocation. But in politics, it leads to corruption. An outright ban on such gifts would protect officials from the unintended worst consequences of their best reflexes—and from the temptations that will inevitably be dangled before them.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

To accept too many favors from Ramona was dangerous. He might have to pay with his freedom. Of course he didn't need that freedom now; he needed a rest. Still, after resting, he might want his freedom again. He wasn't sure of that, either. But it was a possibility.

Believers are called to be servants, and that invariably involves periodically putting others' needs ahead of our own and in rare circumstances can involve laying down one's life for another. It does not, however, obligate believers to neglect their legitimate self-interest.

When one is tricked into accepting a favor, it feels like a trick, not a favor.