Quotes About Obligations

#1. We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

J. William Fulbright

#2. All people are bound by ties and obligations, and the most binding ties of all are those between kin.

Kate Elliott

#3. From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.

Steven Rattner

#4. One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#5. We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.

John Taylor

#7. It's important not to insist that people try things against their will. The palate is for pleasure, not for obligations.

F. G. Haghenbeck

#8. Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Susan Faludi

#9. 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

#10. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

John A. Byrne

#11. It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

Nicos Anastasiades

#12. As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

Robin Hobb

#13. Memory relates to ethics as well as to spirituality (the distinction between ethics and spirituality is a Western one and does more harm than good). Memory places obligations upon you. The Israelites were to remember their experience of servitude in Egypt, and treat their servants accordingly.

John E. Goldingay

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

Jani Ortlund

#15. A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

Pankaj Mishra

#16. This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one.

Claudia Schiffer

#17. Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations.

Paul Singer

#18. Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

Gunther Schuller

#19. So get rid of the unnecessary obligations, time-wasting distractions, and useless burdens that stand in your way.

Daniel H. Pink

#20. My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

Thomas Steinbeck

#21. The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

Edward Gibbon

#22. Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Sallust

#23. I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.

Boris Johnson

#24. No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

Charles Grandison Finney

#25. 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

#26. Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.

Barbara Mikulski

#27. It was never assumed in the United States that the citizen of a free country has a right to do whatever he pleases; on the contrary, social obligations were there imposed upon him more various than anywhere else.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#28. Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

Lajos Kossuth

#29. I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

Sarah Dessen

#30. The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

Baron De Montesquieu

#31. But if I was a miracle, then that came with certain obligations and privileges.
Privileges I would call on in order to end them an who'd killed me. Obligations I meant to uphold now I was free. I'd returned from the dead. And I'd bring the wrath of hell toward my enemies.

Pepper Winters

#32. If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

Jules Massenet

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

Barbara Kellerman

#34. Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to the land

Aldo Leopold

#35. People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

Ethan Zuckerman

#36. He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

Erik Larson

#37. He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended.

Michael Cunningham

#38. One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney.

Cynthia Heimel

#39. I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.

Linda Sanchez

#40. We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on.

Alexander McCall Smith

#41. The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Ron Paul

#42. He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

Francine Rivers

#43. Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

Hannah More

#44. I was wondering If I was going to get a dance at all," I commented, trying to sound playful.

Maxon managed to pull me even closer. "I was saving this one. I've put in time with all the other girls, so my obligations are over. Now I can enjoy the rest of my evening with you.

Kiera Cass

#45. The real crime of these lists isn't that they leave deserving books off them, but that they make people see fantastic literary adventures as obligations. You

Katarina Bivald

#46. All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Albert Camus

#47. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

Aldo Leopold

#48. It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatories to the Treaty, and therefore that we cannot deny Iran the rights due to it as a signatory of the NPT.

Thabo Mbeki

#49. There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

Jean De La Bruyere

#50. When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.

Dannel Malloy

#51. If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Jordan B. Peterson

#52. Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

Ben Ames Williams

#53. A Christian's citizenship may be in heaven, but he has obligations as a citizen of earth. Both living with Christ and going to be with Him in death are greatly to be desired.

Billy Graham

#54. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure the comfort.

Humphy Davy

#55. Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.

Edward Snowden

#56. And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.

Mahmoud Abbas

#57. Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.
(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

John Ralston Saul

#58. The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.

William Howard Taft

#59. I simply refuse to deal with idiots ... It has cut my social obligations in half.

Julia Quinn

#60. Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Tom G. Palmer

#61. Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

Dennis Kucinich

#62. 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 obligations hurriedly en mass, or for making overtures towards more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

Brooks Atkinson

#63. One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.

Yuval Noah Harari

#64. Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

Helen Garner

#65. I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.

Emma Donoghue

#66. For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#67. Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.

James Howard Kunstler

#68. I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

Terence McKenna

#69. A great soul craves occupations and recognizes obligations more in harmony with the true nobility of human nature.

Alfred Wesley Wishart

#70. We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights.

David Blunkett

#71. There were no promises, no obligations between living things, she thought. Not even humans. Just raw need hidden by a game of make-believe.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#72. But more important here is the rhetorical point that they make: Philemon is to respond to Paul because he, Paul, and Onesimus are all "in the Lord/Christ."1365 The fellowship that is created among those who have faith in Christ (v. 6) brings with it obligations to one another.

Douglas J. Moo

#73. Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.

Thomas Jefferson

#74. For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

David McNally

#75. No one, however strong he may feel his obligations, will ever be man
enough to fulfill them except that he be a Christian-that is,one who,
like Christ, cares first for the will of the Father.

George MacDonald

#76. If I give her the truth, then maybe I am released of its obligations. I can pass the truth to its rightful owner, and the frozen stars in my chest might finally ignite.

Nic Pizzolatto

#77. Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to love.

Jeanette Winterson

#78. Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.

Kirby Page

#79. Do not permit social, public or human obligations to rob you of your prayer life.

Sunday Adelaja

#80. Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and guide would be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

Henry Ward Beecher

#81. Is this true? Those who had world' enough, that is, those engaged in a demanding daily vocation, were short of time while those without regular obligations had more than sufficient time, but no world?

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

#82. Self-preservation - this is your new focus.
The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations.
Debt is hindsight.

John-Talmage Mathis

#83. I started to see it Eunice's way. We now had obligations to each other. Our families had failed us, and now we had to form an equally strong and enduring connection to each other. Any gap between us was a failure. Success would come when neither of us knew where one ended and the other began.

Gary Shteyngart

#84. I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders ... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.

Frank Lowy

#85. If your faith is genuine, then you meet your responsibilities, fulfill your obligations, and wait until you are found. It will come. If not to you, then to your children, and if not to them, then to their children.

Mark Helprin

#86. Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#87. It is impossible to bring the Almighty under obligations to the creature; God gains nothing from us. If

Arthur W. Pink

#88. 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, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.

Lucas Papademos

#89. For I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool ...

Herman Melville

#90. Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Anne Roe

#91. Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Traian Basescu

#92. Confidence ... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#93. If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

Richard E. Byrd

#94. I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

Michael Jordan

#95. When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#96. Hey, we have obligations. We all work for a living now.

Michael Irvin

#97. Two Obligations [10w]
We've got two obligations in this world:
Love and Poetry.

Beryl Dov

#98. Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.

Joseph Fort Newton

#99. 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 ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

Peter Welch

#100. Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

William Whewell