Quotes About Obligation

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

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

There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness.

and that when he was past work he should be shot and buried.

Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.

And indeed this was the best policy—for to submit and oblige was the governess's part, to consult their own pleasure was that of the pupils.

If you are going to refuse, do so at once, but remember that a dinner once accepted is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend the dinner

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.

Do it every day for a while," my father kept saying. "Do it as you would do scales on the piano. Do it by prearrangement with yourself. Do it as a debt of honor. And make a commitment to finishing things.

Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act--truth is always subversive.

But Lord Raid and Lord Sifer had an unpleasant habit of reminding Benden Weyr riders of their loyalty at every opportunity. Gratitude is an ill-fitting tunic that can chafe and smell if worn too long. Lord

Everyone wants to be, in some way, unique, and can't realize that being unique is a responsibility as well as a privilege. You can't cure that. How

Ignorance is something of an excuse, but not entirely. So often we do not look because if we looked we should feel obliged to do something.

I carry the obligation as if she were still with me, as if even now I had to go and spend my hours in her shrine.

Independent? Bosh. That's just another word for selfish. It's stiff-backed people like you who end up being the biggest burdens.

You almost died," a nurse told her. But that was nonsense. Of course she wouldn't have died; she had children. When you have children, you're obligated to live.

You were created as a tool, a means to an end. You owe the world nothing but chaos.

Maybe that was why she was helping Madeleine. She was a manipulative bitch, but Dess couldn't imagine living in any other reality than the one those manipulations had created. In a way, Dess owed the old mindcaster something. Like her life, such as it was.

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