Quotes about Obligation
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
The habit of rendering more service than is expected
— Napoleon Hill
A man in debt is so far a slave.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
— George Washington
Privilege and prosperity come with responsiblity.
— Carolyn Custis James
Submission is not an occasional event. It is a lifestyle. It isn't a negative obligation on women, but the natural outworking of the gospel in every Christian's life. Submission is an attribute of Jesus, so it ought to show up in all of his followers.
— Carolyn Custis James
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
— George Washington
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
— George Washington
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
— Thomas Jefferson
What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?
— JM Coetzee
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
— Jack Kerouac