Obligation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
-- Al Gore -
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
-- Al Sharpton -
The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.
-- Athol Fugard -
If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try
-- Barack Obama -
If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
-- Bette Midler -
I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.
-- Bonnie Jo Campbell -
I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.
-- Clay Aiken -
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't,
-- Dave Hickey -
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
-- David Guterson -
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
-- David McCullough -
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.
-- Dean Koontz -
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
-- Decimus Laberius -
I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
-- Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would go bankrupt.
-- Edwin Black -
None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.
-- Ellen Page -
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
-- Francis Chan -
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.
-- Frank R. Wolf -
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
-- G. Edward Griffin -
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
-- Garrett Hardin -
I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
-- Gary Oldman -
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
-- George Eliot -
We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.
-- Gerard Arpey -
I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.
-- Giuseppe Verdi -
Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility
-- Grant Cardone -
The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.
-- Gustav Heinemann -
When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
-- H. Rap Brown -
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
-- Holly Black -
Make tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled.
-- Ibn Taymiyyah -
To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.
-- Jane Ellen Harrison -
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.
-- Jane Velez-Mitchell -
We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart -
It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.
-- Jay Maisel -
Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
-- John Lewis -
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. Certainly not to be trusted.
-- John Taylor Gatto -
My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.
-- Jon Gordon -
You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.
-- Jonah Hill -
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
-- Jose Saramago -
Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.
-- Joseph Alexander Leighton -
My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.
-- Jude Law -
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
-- Julian McMahon -
If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.
-- June Callwood -
Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.
-- Karl Brandt -
Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.
-- Kathleen McGowan -
When you make an observation, you have an obligation.
-- M. K. Asante -
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.
-- Mario Cuomo -
We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.
-- Mark Nepo -
You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.
-- Marla Gibbs -
I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.
-- Martha Reeves -
My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.
-- Melissa Rosenberg -
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
-- Michael Eisner -
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers
-- Mickey Kaus -
God is not an obligation or burden. God is the joy of my life!
-- Mychal Judge -
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
-- Nick Cave -
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
-- Nora Ephron -
If you are in a meeting and you disagree mentally then you have an obligation to disagree verbally!
-- Perry Noble -
December 25th has become guilt and obligation.
-- Phil Donahue -
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
-- Philip James Bailey -
To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.
-- Pierre Charron -
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
-- Pliny the Elder -
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
-- Rachel Carson -
Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.
-- Rainis -
We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.
-- Ray Kroc -
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
-- Richard Lamm -
I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.
-- Rico Lebrun -
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
-- Robert Kennedy -
I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.
-- Robert Mapplethorpe -
You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.
-- Robert Mapplethorpe -
I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on.
-- RuPaul -
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.
-- Sandra Steingraber -
The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
-- Stephen Crane -
The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
-- Steve Buyer -
I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
-- Theodore Bikel -
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
-- Tom G. Palmer -
Obligations may be universal or particular.
-- Tom G. Palmer -
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
-- Tom G. Palmer -
Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
-- Vidal Sassoon -
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
-- William J. Clinton -
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor
