There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman
It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.
Mario Cuomo
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.
Richard Bach
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Tom G. Palmer
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing
John Tillotson
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.
Richard Bach
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Dr. Carl Sagan
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech
Anthony M. Kennedy
The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
Ray Douglas Bradbury