Obligation Quotes

1054 Obligation quotes by 801 unique authors

The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to… — Barry Lopez
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social… — Brooks Atkinson
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. — Benjamin Rush
Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all,… — Mark Twain
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.… — James Madison
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys,… — Margaret Mead
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try. — Hakeem Olajuwon
I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care of my obligations.… — LeBron James
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people… — Albert Einstein
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to… — Marion G. Romney
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the… — Albert Schweitzer
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law… — Robert Breault
Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and… — John Bunyan
Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. — Ivan Illich
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. — Henry David Thoreau
When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them… — Byron Dorgan
What then is your duty? What the day demands. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty. — Napoleon Bonaparte
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty. — Plautus
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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