Quotes About Obligation

Perhaps you have had more friends than you are aware of. You owe something to the man, for instance, who, with his outspoken antagonism, roused you first to a sense of what was lacking to you. I hope I shall be grateful to God for it some day, returned Wingfold. I cannot say that I feel much obligation to Mr. Bascombe. And yet when I think of it,—perhaps—I don't know—what ought a man to be more grateful for than honesty?

The man is a true man who chooses duty; he is a perfect man who at length never thinks of duty, who forgets the name of it.

But in after days Cosmo repented of having so completely dropped the old gentleman's acquaintance; he was under obligation to him; and if a man will have to do only with the perfect, he must needs cut himself first, and go out of the world.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

She was italicising every other word, with that deadly, glittering brightness that a woman puts on when she is dodging a moral obligation. He

A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work is needed or not, he must work, because work in itself is good—for slaves, at least.

Ese trabajo era estrictamente voluntario, pero el animal que se negara a hacerlo vería reducidas sus raciones a la mitad.

So, dear brothers, since evidently you must sweat to pay for our trips to Italy, sweat and be damned to you.

In case of default, those so bonded were sold into slavery.

It was a common custom for men to put themselves, their wives or their children up as a bond to guarantee payment of loans

He must pay his debts with all the promptness within his power, not purchasing that for which he is unable to pay

But it's different with a woman. Her work in the house is to keep not to get.

always stressed that the comforts they enjoyed came with a responsibility to give back.

however much such loans may temporarily relieve the situation, the Government is still indebted for the amount of the surplus thus accrued, which it must ultimately pay, while its ability to pay is not strengthened, but weakened by a continued deficit.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

And don't you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don't like a person, you don't wish to be obliged to him!

In any event, I could hardly have remained, when his lordship was suddenly called away, could I?' 'No, your grace. Particularly seeing as how you wasn't wishful to.

There is no use in a smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything, there is no use at all and the respect is mutual. Why should that which is uneven, that which is resumed, that which is tolerable why should all this resemble a smell, a thing is there, it whistles, it is not narrower, why is there no obligation to stay away and yet courage, courage is everywhere and the best remains to stay.

I think you have to show people it's cool and fun to work together. It's your obligation. If you can't do it, who can you expect to do it?

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

I do not owe hundreds of millions of potential foreign workers from around the world an obligation. I owe Singaporeans a responsibility.

How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn't, like, cashing Social Security checks; he wasn't hanging out - he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work.

Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.