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Quotes About Obligation

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Commitments, not feelings, hold life together.
~ Mason Cooley
Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.
~ Charlie Sheen
Spiritual life is contractual.
~ Christina Baldwin
Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
~ Francis Bacon
We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.
~ Halford Luccock
Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.
~ James M. Paramore
Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.
~ Ransom Riggs
It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz
~ A. J. Jacobs
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
~ Edward R. Murrow
The man who builds, and lacks where with to pay, provides a home from which to run away.
~ Edward Young
Duty can be then when something exists and has to do.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
L - executes, Loyalty, O - shows, Obligation, V - mirrors, Victory, E - waves, Essence; consequently, when these four alphabets gather, wave and fragrance, LOVE.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Non ho nostalgia della nostra infanzia, è piena di violenza. Ci succedeva di tutto, in casa e fuori, ma non ricordo di aver mai pensato che la vita che c'era capitata fosse particolarmente brutta. La vita era così è basta, crescevamo con l'obbligo di renderla difficile agli altri prima che gli altri la rendessero difficile a noi.
~ Elena Ferrante
But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.
~ Elena Ferrante
Sentía tristeza por el derroche, porque estaba obligada a marcharme, porque ella prefería la aventura de los zapatos a nuestras conversaciones, porque sabía ser independiente mientras que yo la necesitaba, porque tenía cosas propias en las que yo no podía entrar.
~ Elena Ferrante
nu-mi amintesc s? fi crezut vreodat? c? viaÈ›a care ni se oferise era foarte urât?. ViaÈ›a era aÈ™a cum era si gata, creÈ™team cu obligaÈ›ia de a le-o face dificil? celorlalÈ›i înainte ca ei s? ne-o fac? dificil? nou?.
~ Elena Ferrante