Quotes About Obligation

My God, I thought with sudden vehemence, so you really are. There are proofs of your existence. I have forgotten them all and never even wanted any, for what a huge obligation would lie in the certainty of you.

I always feel: when one person is indebted to another for something very special, that indebtedness should remain a secret between just the two of them.

daß man nicht das Recht hatte, ein Buch aufzuschlagen, wenn man sich nicht verpflichtete, alle zu lesen

Responsibility rests upon recognition, and recognition is a form of agreement.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are made to understand every day that your existence is necessary - you see, absolutely necessary - to another person.

Sure, there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

When you said Please to those who...had no option but to obey, what were you really saying?

If you find yourself cluttered up and done in by disorganization, ask yourself why you seem to hang on to everything that comes your way. Do you feel obligated to keep it just because someone gave it to you? Of course, we don't want to hurt people's feelings, but on the other hand, if a gift is given correctly, it comes with no strings attached. If someone truly gives you a gift, it should be yours to do with as you please.

To have him look at her as if she was a piece of office equipment whose presence offended him but whom he was obliged out of neccessity to have nearby.

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I am humbled before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

Las mejores cosas de la vida no pueden lograrse por la fuerza. Puedes obligar a comer, pero no puedes obligar a sentir hambre; puedes obligar a alguien a acostarse, pero no a dormir; puedes obligar a que te elogien, pero no a que te admiren; puedes obligar a que te cuenten un secreto, pero no a confiar; puedes obligar a que te sirvan, pero no a que te amen.27

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Consult duty not events.

working for your daed every day was like going to the dentist to get a root canal.

This was one of the unfortunate consequences of exaggerating the enemy's evil. You were obligated to exaggerate your own virtues as well. To counter the enemy's fiendish subversion, you wielded a blunt instrument of righteousness. And then you got a congressional committee of yahoos with subpoena power and God on their side...If only, Axel thought. If only they weren't so god damned dumb.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Well it's like eating at my mom's you get what's being served and if you don't like it they still make you eat it

Responsibility educates.