Obligation Quotes · Page 10

Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.

— Mason Cooley

With every great relationship comes a great burden and the strength to carry it.

— Anonymous

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

— Robert Breault

Your only true obligation in a gang is to be committed and be there when your brothers need you.

— Richard Cabral

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

— Susan Faludi

Responsibility and commitment are key elements in meeting obligations.

— Zig Ziglar

Even when our burdens are too much to hold, God gives them to us to make us stronger.

— Anonymous

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it…

— Henry James

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith,…

— George Washington

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to…

— Bette Midler

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young…

— George Eliot

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.

— Ivan Illich

I feel blessed to be in the broadcast business for 20 years. I believe that when you're this blessed, you have an…

— Tavis Smiley

I can't imagine just dusting my pants off and going about my life like, "Phew! I sure made it through a tough…

— Tig Notaro

The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide…

— John Hardon

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people…

— Barack Obama

However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not…

— Ronald Fisher

But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more…

— Audrey Hepburn

The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not…

— Selma Fraiberg

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for…

— Albert Schweitzer

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of…

— Ann Patchett

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my…

— Abraham Maslow

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy…

— Rajneesh

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands…

— Che Guevara

We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates…

— Arianna Huffington

You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always…

— Caroline Myss

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a…

— e. e. cummings

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

— Michael Ruhlman

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

— Pierre Charron

I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.

— Will Ferrell

There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

— Margaret Thatcher

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

— Jude Law

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

— Salvador Allende

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

— Kathleen McGowan

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

— Eugene Ionesco