Obligation Quotes

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.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Tom G. Palmer

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.

Our major obligation is not to make slogans for solutions.
Edward Roscoe Murrow

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton

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.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty
Decimus Laberius

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
Garrett Hardin

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.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Jose Saramago

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.
Phil Crane

God primes the pump of obligation.
A. P. Martinich

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.
Ron Silver

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

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

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
Stephen Carter

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
Steve Buyer

We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us







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