Obligation Quotes · Page 11

... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.

— John Michael Greer

Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

— Boyd K. Packer

You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

— Athol Fugard

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

— Neil Gaiman

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

— Michelle Obama

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

— Al Gore

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

— Simon Callow

These debt obligations will simply erode America's standard of living in the future. Money spent to service the debt is money that…

— Joseph Stiglitz

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor...

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to…

— Seth Godin

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on.

— RuPaul

Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social…

— James Madison

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

— Joss Whedon

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make…

— Leslie Parrish

The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since…

— John Burroughs

To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is…

— Hirohito

I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe…

— Garry McCarthy

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they…

— Pat Barker

Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an…

— Pope John Paul II

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day…

— John Taylor Gatto

Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is…

— Harry Frankfurt

A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and…

— Gerald R. Ford

Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women…

— Clementine Ford

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You…

— Christopher Paolini

I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life.…

— Jack LaLanne

When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how…

— Joshua Greene

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

— Dan Millman

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

— Traian Basescu

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

— John D. Rockefeller

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

— Warren G. Bennis

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

— Lee Scott

The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.

— William Howard Taft