Obligation Quotes

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. (Anthony Kennedy)
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. View quote
Henry James
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. View quote
Richard Perle
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. View quote
Richard Bach
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. View quote
Muhammad Ali
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. (Simone de Beauvoir)
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it. View quote
Barbara Coloroso
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. View quote
José Martí
My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing. View quote
Jude Law
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes. View quote
John L. Lewis
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can. View quote
Marla Gibbs
What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing? View quote
Norman Spinrad
Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation. (Barbara Sher)
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine. View quote
Adam Schiff
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully. View quote
Bruce Babbitt
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards. View quote
David Soul
The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful. View quote
Doc Hastings