Obligation Quotes - page 18

I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country. (Naveen Jain)
If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care. View quote
Patrick Soon-Shiong
You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do. View quote
Richard Masur
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. View quote
Robert Scheer
Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why. View quote
Rene Redzepi
The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing. View quote
Ricardo Alarcon
We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations. View quote
Sibel Edmonds
When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate. View quote
Sid Haig
Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it. View quote
Simon Callow
I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can. View quote
Tim Tebow
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it. (Tobias Wolff)
We were against the war in Vietnam and for voter registration and social issues. Everybody has their choices, and the obligation of a comedian is first to entertain. And if you're so inclined, and you have some bigger thought, make sure you express it, because that's a gift. View quote
Tom Smothers
I would like to stress that the obligation [of being Queen] has always been driven by joy. The joy is rooted in the warmth that has met me and my family everywhere through every year, in celebration and joy as in sorrow, in the so-called "big days", as well as in everyday life. View quote
Margrethe II of Denmark
Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and meaning to this life. View quote
Charlie Sheen
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. View quote
Eliot Spitzer
Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer. View quote
Frank Abagnale
To ourselves, in strict language, we can owe no duties, obligation requiring also two parties. Self-love, therefore, is no part of morality. Indeed, it is exactly its counterpart. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong. View quote
James Monroe
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. (James Monroe)
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests. View quote
Matthew Scully
I rejoice to think that since the days of Queen Elizabeth, our laws have been so far humanized that a bastard child is no longer a mere thing to be shunned by an overseer,-whose existence is unrecognised until it becomes a pauper, and whose only legitimate home is a workhouse, that it is no longer permissible to punish its unfortunate mother with hard labour for a year, nor its father with a whipping at the cart's tail; but that even an illegitimate child may find itself a member of some honest family, and that the sole obligation now cast upon its parents is that each may be compelled to bear his and her own fair share of the maintenance and education of the unfortunate offspring of their common failing. View quote
Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton
We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and trusts. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. View quote
Paulo Coelho