Quotes About Family Obligations

#1. In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

Barbara Kellerman

#2. Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes.

David Deida

#3. I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

Carre Otis

#4. 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 losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.

Grace Napolitano

#5. I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day.

Tom Berenger

#6. You have two choices ... You can make the BEST of IT or you can let IT get the BEST of you!

Tanya Masse

#7. I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.

Howard Zinn

#8. Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.

Richard Widmark

#9. At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.

Peter Farb

#10. What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

Peter Drucker

#11. When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Jani Ortlund

#12. In the West, especially after World War II, the government came to be seen as so successful that it could fulfill all the obligations that in less modern societies are fulfilled by the family.

Lee Kuan Yew

#13. Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

Elizabeth McGovern

#14. To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

Pat Summitt

#15. [Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Wallace Stegner

#16. I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Eliot Spitzer

#17. I practice self-control and staying active. Running round the kitchen keeps me moving.

Lorena Garcia

#18. Mrs. Spencer distrusted letters on principle, because they always seemed to want to entangle her in so many small, disagreeable obligations--visits, or news of old friends she had conveniently forgotten, or family responsibilities that always had to be met quickly and without enjoyment.

Shirley Jackson

#19. Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

Oswald Chambers

#20. I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life ... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Rob Lowe