Obligation Quotes

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

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.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.

All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Art has an obligation to offend

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

You don't change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist." The Universe replied: "That's fine." Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.

Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility

We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.

If you are in a meeting and you disagree mentally then you have an obligation to disagree verbally!