Quotes About Obligation

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

saying my fellow-officers are obliged to me, as indeed they

For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence.

Why was she so ready to forfeit her own happiness when no one demanded it of her, only her own misplaced sense of duty?

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

He spoke with a knowledge that's almost completely forgotten, and of which almost nothing completely verifiable can survive. He offered opinions rather than information. He spoke about Balzac as he might have done about himself, as if he himself had once tried to be Balzac. He had a sublime courtesy even in knowledge, a way at once profound and clear of handling knowledge without ever making it seem an obligation or a burden. He was sincere.

Service is the rent we pay for living.

The idea that a corporation should bear no responsibility to anything other than the financial bottom line of its stockholders destroys the

Blum remarks that Kant and Hegel specify that rationality, self-control, strength of will, consistency, adherence to duty and obligation, and acting on 'universal' principles comprise moral behavior; they specifically exclude from the makeup of moral man qualities like sympathy, compassion, kindness, nurturance, and concern for the community, which are associated with women.

I say this because there was a seriousness about her that seemed almost like a kind of anger. As though she might say, I came here from whatever unspeakable distance and from whatever unimaginable otherness just to oblige your prayers. Now say something with a little meaning in it.

There were, in fact, several churches whose visions of sin and salvation were so ecstatic, and so nearly identical, that the superiority of one church over another could be argued only in terms of good works. And the obligation to perform these works rested squarely with the women, since salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men.

How you would honor someone differs with circumstances, so you can only truly fulfill a general obligation to show honor in specific cases of mutual intimacy and understanding.

A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.