Quotes About Obligation

Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

Estamos reunidos en la feliz hora, desempeñe cada quien su trabajo, cada uno cumpla con su obligación y una felicidad colectiva disolverá los pesares de cada quien al igual que la desgracia de todos consume las alegrías de cada uno.

You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law.

A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.

You never realize how short a month is until you have to pay alimony.

Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it up. Two, five, ten, twenty years.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Once we've concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then we rightly stoop to consider this life's miserable condition. And by such consideration we disentangle ourselves from excessive desire for this life, which— as has been said—is our natural inclination.

were pressed into service, although

his obligations were few. They could, in fact, be boiled down to one: to find the one who had taken his wife and child from this world and tear him apart.

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!