Obligation Quotes

1054 Obligation quotes by 801 unique authors

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is. — Rajneesh
A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has… — Rajneesh
You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live… — Rajneesh
If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind… — Rajneesh
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. I know… — Brigid Brophy
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will? — Edward Abbey
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself. — Thomas Jefferson
Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations,… — George Washington
The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive. — Ray Bradbury
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also,… — James Madison
I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance… — John Quincy Adams
So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted… — Arundhati Roy
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it?… — Abraham Maslow
You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like… — Condoleezza Rice
This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision. — Garry Kasparov
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God. — Charles Hodge
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but… — George R. R. Martin
Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain… — Niccolo Machiavelli
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with… — Wayne Pacelle
I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in… — Sarah Dessen
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before… — Fernando Pessoa
I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a… — Robert Mapplethorpe
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness… — John Flavel
Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our… — Clementine Ford

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