Obligation Quotes

1054 Obligation quotes by 801 unique authors

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. — Rabindranath Tagore
I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my… — Walker Percy
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware. — Robert Kennedy
No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor. — Richard Lamm
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.… — Athol Fugard
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid… — Tacitus
What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a… — Abraham Lincoln
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an… — Herbert Hoover
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference.… — Ernest Hemingway
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness… — Edmund Burke
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. — Ugo Betti
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. — Susan Sontag
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. — Anne Lamott
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of… — Isaac Barrow
Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it. — Thomas Gray
Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even… — Maimonides
Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up… — Grace Napolitano
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I have… — Sathya Sai Baba

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