Obligation Quotes

1054 Obligation quotes by 801 unique authors

Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone… — Isabella Macdonald Alden
We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps… — Carl Sagan
What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence,… — David W. Orr
If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try — Barack Obama
To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law… — Thomas Merton
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is… — Terence McKenna
The “we” of your divine birthright - the one that is aware of its place as part of the collective whole - knows that it… — Debbie Ford
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects… — Laozi
We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to… — Frederick William Faber
My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal… — Ronald Reagan
We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at… — Klaus Schwab
We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children. — Ricardo Lagos
We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens. — Bob Ehrlich
There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation of the Western… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry. — William Howard Taft
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and… — John Templeton
I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to… — Theodore Roosevelt
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to… — Joseph Fort Newton
Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they… — George Washington
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend… — Joseph Story
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend… — Joseph Story
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more… — James Madison
THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION. — Chester W. Nimitz
I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a… — John W. Snow

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