Quotes About Obligation

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

I feel blessed to be in the broadcast business for 20 years. I believe that when you're this blessed, you have an obligation to pay it forward. That's what life is all about ultimately.

I can't imagine just dusting my pants off and going about my life like, "Phew! I sure made it through a tough spot, now where am I headed?" I feel more of an obligation to be helpful.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

By virtue of being created by God, the world knows how to live and is under obligation to live that way, but it has declined. It has thus "profaned" the earth, made it something God no longer wishes to have anything to do with, something God could not continue to have anything to do with without compromising who he is.

As he got to know her better, he learned more of her childhood; and he came to realize that it was typical of that of most girls of her time and circumstance. She was educated upon the premise that she would be protected from the gross events that life might thrust in her way, and upon the premise that she had no other duty than to be a graceful and accomplished accessory to that protection, since she belonged to a social and economic class to which protection was an almost sacred obligation.

I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.

Be beholden to no one, he had said. Make sure you owe nobody any favors.

Gelukkig is het niet verplicht.' Gilan deed alsof hij even nadacht. 'Ik zou het verplicht kunnen máken.' Ze glimlachte allerliefst naar hem. 'Ja, dan kan ik eindelijk eens een opdracht aan mijn laars lappen.

The sabbath was the sign of the covenant that God made with Israel and therefore it had to be part of the covenant document of which it was the sign.

To rob Peter and pay Paul.

Admiro al salmón porque comprendo lo que significa ser empujado por fuerzas que los demás no pueden ver, sentir ni oír, y percibir la obligación de un deber más importante que uno mismo.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

You've got to look after yourself, nothing comes for free and you've got to do the other bloke before he does you. That's what the pensioners don't realise. They might be owed something but there's nobody left to cough up. It's a different world now. The war spirit is dead and gone, packaged and sold off to the highest bidder.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

He was aware of the irony that he who prized his freedom and willingness to seek the truth had been happiest when he had a defined purpose, a sense of duty and obligation, and a specific destination in mind.

The claim that values are not objective, are not part of the fabric of the world, is meant to include not only moral goodness, which might be most naturally equated with moral value, but also other things that could be more loosely called moral values or disvalues—rightness and wrongness, duty, obligation, an action's being rotten and contemptible, and so on. It also includes non-moral values, notably aesthetic ones, beauty and various kinds of artistic merit.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions:

having by his fault forfeited his own life, by some act that deserves death; he, to whom he has forfeited it, may (when he has him in his power) delay to take it, and make use of him to his own service, and he does him no injury by it:

submission to government be every one's duty