We become happier, much happier, when we realize life is an opportunity rather than an obligation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than… — Sally Jewell Copy Share Image
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a… — John Green Copy Share Image
The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Many who think that they are taking life seriously are actually only taking themselves seriously. Who takes himself seriously is over conscious… — Joseph T. O'Callahan Copy Share Image
Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights.… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it’s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people… — Mark Suster Copy Share Image
Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle. — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
