It’s well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends…

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

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.

— George W. Bush

In so many ways, a lot of the drive I've had to do certain things has been because of this sense that I have…

— Marco Rubio

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

— Stephen Crane

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

— Mike Vallely

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt…

— Abraham Lincoln

“My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger…

— Mark Twain

“Pop used to say that standing by someone during their darkest times creates a bond. A sense of obligation that is less a weight…

— Sabaa Tahir

“Never do anything in relationship out of a sense of obligation. Do whatever you do out of a sense of the glorious opportunity your…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to…

— James Anthony Froude

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

— Wayne Dyer

“... how much less is the sense of obligation in those who receive favours than in those who grant them." Somerset Maugham”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should:…

— Ellen Cushing

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

— Lin Yutang

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

— William J. Clinton