Obligation Quotes
1054 Obligation quotes by 801 unique authors
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger…
— Thomas More
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You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching that the organic…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate…
— Edward Gibbon
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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it.…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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I think the voters believe that when you become president of the United States, you have a higher obligation and a higher standard than anybody…
— Bob Dole
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of…
— Rudolf Virchow
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Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have…
— David Morrell
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Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it…
— Ezekiel Emanuel
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One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.…
— William J. Brennan
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When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest…
— Steven Pressfield
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Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
— George Crabbe
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When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary…
— Star Parker
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In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is…
— George Soros
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It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.
— Jay Maisel
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
— Ricardo Lagos
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There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
— Margaret Thatcher
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A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the…
— Leo Szilard
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
— Eddie Bernice Johnson
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The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation…
— John Carlos
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He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic…
— Grover Cleveland
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The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the…
— James B. Weaver
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