Top 1200 Obligation Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

Love is at once the most creative and yet simultaneously destructive force in the world, and thus, in our lives. And I don't mean the Hallmark sentimental type of love, although that is part of it. But a deeper obligation that we have to each other: the obligation to reflect our humanness at each other, to reflect back the things others show us and we, them.

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.

Laws are there for a reason, and we have an obligation to follow them.

For me, motivation is like obligation.

I have no obligation to deal with slime.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

It's my obligation to celebrate after scoring a goal.

Happiness is a moral obligation

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Protecting our kids is a sacred obligation.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.

Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.

Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

My obligation is to the movie audiences.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

You do what you want to for Passion, you do what you have to for Obligation.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

A dream is better than obligation.

I realized that, as a woman, you have an obligation to be a feminist.

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.

We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

We have an obligation to provide a return for our shareholders.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.

Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

Living at peace with everyone...is not an option, it's an obligation.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Art has an obligation to offend

The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Every claim creates an obligation.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

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.

Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

God primes the pump of obligation.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.