Obligation Quotes
All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.
We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.
People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.
Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.
Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.
Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.
I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.
You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
I think it's an obligation to make a movie full, so you have to see it twice to get all the moments.
Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.
Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.
When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.
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.
I think there's going to be an obligation to show that Trumpism is not a complete equivalent for GOP.
It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working
for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.
The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.
All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black.
We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.
Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.
Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity of a being.
Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.
Respect is not an obligation nor a favour, it takes a bigger person to give or show some whether it is returned or not.
Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in ‘right’ living, verses believing that living is a ‘right.
