Obligation Quotes

1054 Obligation quotes by 801 unique authors

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you… — Jennifer Weiner
You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here because I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest,… — Tessa Dare
He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the… — Jim Butcher
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his… — Ayn Rand
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part… — Mario Vargas Llosa
No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way,… — Charlaine Harris
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of… — Tobias Wolff
Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like… — Colum McCann
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused… — Fulton J. Sheen
One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. — Haruki Murakami
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. — Charlotte Bronte
I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out… — Nora Ephron
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is. — Margaret Mitchell
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at… — Terry Pratchett
For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I… — Neal Shusterman
It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation.… — Muriel Barbery
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. — Albert Einstein
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed — Kurt Vonnegut
The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible.… — John Taylor Gatto
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes… — Jonathan Swift
Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean… — Edward Abbey

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