Obligation Quotes

1054 Obligation quotes by 801 unique authors

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out… — Daniel H. Pink
Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations,… — Lucas Papademos
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of… — Richard Perle
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. — Tom G. Palmer
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation… — Dave Van Ronk
Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why. — Rene Redzepi
I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled. — Connie Stevens
My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing. — Jude Law
The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations… — Andrew Tobias
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are… — Claude Vorilhon
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you… — Frederick Lenz
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me. Embrace the opportunity for service based in love. — Mary Anne Radmacher
My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work. — Claire McCaskill
I have a lot of obligations. — Isaac Mizrahi
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then,… — Peter Welch
If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt… — Peter Welch
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but… — Michel de Montaigne
There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls,… — Aldo Leopold
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly. — Vaclav Havel
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural… — Elihu Root
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. — Simon Wiesenthal
I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can. — Gary Oldman

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