Obligation Quotes - page 6

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers. (Phil Crane)
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? View quote
Patricia Ireland
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient. View quote
Patrick Soon-Shiong
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq. View quote
Richard Shelby
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that. View quote
Robert Scheer
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change. View quote
Ron Silver
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive. View quote
Ralph Waite
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. View quote
Seth Low
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. View quote
Simon Callow
The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself. View quote
Steve Buyer
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm. (Tom Allen)
We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well. View quote
Thad Cochran
I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. View quote
Theodore Bikel
Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended. View quote
Vito Fossella
We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone. View quote
Warren Christopher
Each citizen of a state promises, in the original compact, that he will promote, as far as lies in his power, all the conditions of the possibility of the state; hence, also, the condition just mentioned. This he can best do by educating children who may grow up to realize various ends of reason. The state has the right to make this education of children a condition of the state-compact, and thus education becomes an external, legal obligation, which the parents owe to the state. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The conception of Rights involves that when men are to live in a community, each must so restrict his freedom as to permit the coexistence of the freedom of all others. But it does not involve that this particular person, A, is to restrict his freedom by the freedom of those particular persons, B, C, and D. That it has happened so that I, A, must conform myself particularly to the freedom of these, B, C, and D, of all other men, is purely the result of my living together with them; and I so live with them, simply by my free-will, not because there is an obligation for me to do so. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil. We are the custodians of those ideals at home, and their champion abroad. We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did. We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don't. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn't deserve to. View quote
John McCain
By My life! But for the obligation to acknowledge the Cause of Him Who is the Testimony of God ... I would not have announced this unto thee... All the keys of heaven God hath chosen to place on My right hand, and all the keys of hell on My left... View quote
Báb
Each set of woes can be left behind in a folder in a drawer at the end of the day. Whereas in the outside world there is no end of obligation, no protection from the needs and grief of others. View quote
John Updike
In the European Union of today, the obligation to provide international leadership rests on all nations - large and small. (Alex Salmond)
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. View quote
Samuel Alito
As such, I think that it would be in derogation of our respective oaths and our institutional obligations to our country to engage in uncivil behavior. It would also be demeaning to any of us who engages in such conduct. Having worn the robe, we have a lifetime obligation to conduct ourselves as having deserved to wear the robe in the first instance. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Let no-one mistake. This Church, and other faith groups, have the ability to be agents for change and change for the better. ... You have worked to promote understanding among faiths. To tackle sectarianism. To promote development worldwide. ... And let me say that for our Parliament, that is something that may not yet be formally our responsibility. But it is, in reality, our obligation. ... In ancient times it was said that Sparta had no city walls. It did not need them, the people were the walls of Sparta. This church and our other institutions - spiritual and secular are the walls of Scotland - the rocks on which reform and renewal will be built. ... We will continue to draw on this Church as a source of wisdom. A source of strength. A source of hope. View quote
Alex Salmond
Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation. View quote
Dan Millman