Quotes About Obligation

Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

Any time you find yourself doing something out of obligation, that's a time you should start questioning whether you're spending your time wisely.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

I realized that, as a woman, you have an obligation to be a feminist.

My survival case comes with a purpose and obligation, which is why I have launched Nadia's Initiative, an organisation dedicated to helping women and children who have been victimised... My initiative is trying to get support needed to get Sinjar rebuilt.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

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.

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts this influence very naturally. From the start, one doesn't realize this. The first thing to know: one doesn't realize one is influenced. One thinks he is already liberated, and one is far from it!

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.