Obligation Quotes

My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do.

When you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy. I just don't think you can do the work if you're not healthy.

All of us will be more safe and secure if everyone fulfills their obligations the way they are supposed to.

NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations.

Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would go bankrupt.

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.

When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

I feel a sense of obligation to our troops and their families because of the decisions that I made. So I'm involved with veterans.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.

As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

I have a lot of obligations.

I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

One's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.

To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.

As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.

I hope that the states are taking seriously their obligations to harden the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure that Americans rely upon and need.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.