Accepting Quote by Rainis

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

— Samuel Johnson

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of…

— Anonymous

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it…

— Chuck Feeney

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

— Terence McKenna

It is often the people who ask you to stay that ultimately let you down

— Ryan Nagen

“my every instinct opposed the idea of their dismissal. Nevertheless, my duty in this instance was quite clear, and as I saw it, there…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

— Twyla Tharp

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

— Malcolm Forbes

It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return.

— Paul Gillmor

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

— Henry David Thoreau