Obligation Quotes

"The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent."
-William Gilmore Simms

"Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence."
-Kathleen Norris

"Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law."
-Sophocles

"Believe that our government has an obligation to take care of its people."
-Charlie Rangel

"I think we have a great state and a great country and those of us that are successful have a great obligation to give something back."
-Bill Knapp

"We have an obligation to remember and to pay tribute to those who took up freedom's call."
-James Nicholson

"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
-Henry James

"I don't want to run the risk of creating this ongoing financial obligation."
-Debbie Phillips

"A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
-Stephen Crane

"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing."
-John Tillotson

"I feel like you have to be committed by doing it right in terms of female sports. Some people look at it like an obligation, but I look at it as doing something that's right."
-Allen Ward

"These bicyclists were not in any way at fault, ... The truck driver had the obligation not to hit other vehicles."
-Philip Brooks

"Being captain means more in hockey than in any sport. You wear that 'C' on your sweater, and you have an obligation to lead. Messier was all about that."
-Dave Maloney

"The contract actually spells out that groups are under no obligation to come to any agreement. This does not change the way we operate. It will not change the way we operate."
-Charlie Higley

"The City has an obligation to compensate victims for damages The City causes. At the same time, we have an obligation to taxpayers to ensure we only compensate when The City is liable."
-Alexis Truchan

"In law, in general, there is an obligation and duty to maintain and preserve evidence if you have reason to know that litigation could ensue. That doesn't mean you have to wait to the day the complaint comes across the threshold."
-Gregory Johnson

"Because we feel there was a good-faith argument to make that the statute as written was constitutional, we feel we have an obligation to make that argument if at all possible."
-Dan Mullen

"When you want to live in a society, when you want to be part of that society, you have an obligation to blend in."
-Manzoor Moghal

"By God's grace and his spirit and power, ... there is a way to live a life that is not [as a homosexual]. If I was born predisposed to kill or lie or embezzle, I have the obligation to myself to overcome that, because it's not in the interest of the common good."
-Joe Fields

"We decided we had an obligation to look into it."
-Rick Noble

"I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman."
-Henry James

"I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation."
-Joseph Lieberman

"It's our obligation to delay as long as possible Barca being crowned champions."
-Quique Flores

"This convention is actually about trade clearly exceeds the mandate of UNESCO, ... deeply flawed and fundamentally incompatible with (the agency's) obligation to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image."
-Richard Martin

"She issued citations to people who were legitimately handicapped. Their only crime was they didn't want to show her their ID card, and they had no obligation to."
-Tim Michener

"It's almost a duty and an obligation to bring information about this part of the world . . . into the knowledge of American readers."
-Daniel Menaker