Quotes about Obligation
Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.
— Dennis Prager
No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.
— Martin Luther
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
— Edmund Burke
Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.
— AB Simpson
If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
— Charles Dickens
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.
— Paulo Coelho
God gave him a work to do. He commissioned him to be a watchman on the walls.
— David Jeremiah
It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
— Edith Wharton
Seems to me it all boils down to one thing. Was this fellow we're supposing about under any obligation to the other party - the one he was trying to buy the property from?' Ralph hesitated. 'Only the obligation recognized between decent men to deal with each other decently.' Mr. Spragg listened to this with the suffering air of a teacher compelled to simplify upon his simplest question.
— Edith Wharton