Quotes about Obligation
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
— Albert Schweitzer
A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.
— Martin Luther
Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.
— John Maxwell
People who do their duty are always finally rewarded.
— Emily Bronte
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
— Andrew Carnegie
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
— Andrew Carnegie
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
— Lao Tzu
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— St. Augustine
Giving is above what we owe God, and that is our tithes.
— David Green
God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.
— John Piper
Respect is what we owe love, what we give.
— Philip James Bailey
The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not
— Philip Schaff