Obligation Quotes
|
|
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. (Quote by - Christian Bale)
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. (Quote by - Sibel Edmonds)
For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people. (Quote by - Allen Weinstein)
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. (Quote by - Robert Scheer)
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. (Quote by - Garrett Hardin)
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
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. (Quote by - Doc Hastings)
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. (Quote by - John Tillotson)
The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either. (Quote by - Edward Grey)
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? (Quote by - John Trumbull)
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change. (Quote by - Ron Silver)
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. (Quote by - Stephen Carter)
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. (Quote by - Richard Masur)
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. (Quote by - Phil Crane)
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. (Quote by - Ward McAllister)
I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about. (Quote by - Harold Ramis)
I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them. (Quote by - Helen Reddy)
I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis. (Quote by - John W. Snow)
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. (Quote by - Condoleezza Rice)
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. (Quote by - Vito Fossella)
It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern. (Quote by - Stephen Harper)
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
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. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations win and preserve the heart. (Quote by - Humphrey Davy)
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
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. (Quote by - Adam Schiff)
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. (Quote by - Al Sharpton)
I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something. (Quote by - Eddie Bernice Johnson)
Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop. (Quote by - Jim Doyle)
Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy. (Quote by - James Meade)
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. (Quote by - Thad Cochran)
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad. (Quote by - Morgan Brittany)
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. (Quote by - Marian Wright Edelman)
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer. (Quote by - David Guterson)
December 25th has become guilt and obligation. (Quote by - Phil Donahue)
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. (Quote by - Robert Scheer)
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. (Quote by - Barbara Coloroso)
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. (Quote by - Dave Heineman)
We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished. (Quote by - Bob Filner)
Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out. (Quote by - Carl Hubbell)
My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations. (Quote by - Louis Freeh)
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. (Quote by - Margaret Mitchell)
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering. (Quote by - Claude Vorilhon)
Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted. (Quote by - Frank R. Wolf)
One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so. (Quote by - Bobby Scott)
My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure. (Quote by - Ricardo Lagos)
My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing. (Quote by - Jude Law)
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. (Quote by - John L. Lewis)
So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited. (Quote by - Lee Scott)
The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do. (Quote by - Jay Alan Sekulow)
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act. (Quote by - Clay Aiken)
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. (Quote by - Tobias Wolff)
But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there. (Quote by - Judge Mills Lane)
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. (Quote by - Jose Marti)
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
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. (Quote by - Warren Christopher)
No obligation to do the impossible is binding. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. (Quote by - R. D. Laing)
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years. (Quote by - Josef Albers)
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. (Quote by - James Cromwell)
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? (Quote by - Patricia Ireland)
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people. (Quote by - Bob Ney)
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. (Quote by - Dave Van Ronk)
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. (Quote by - George Combe)
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so. (Quote by - Bobby Rush)
God primes the pump of obligation. (Quote by - A. P. Martinich)
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year. (Quote by - Larry David)
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. (Quote by - Condoleezza Rice)
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. (Quote by - Bruce Babbitt)
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. (Quote by - Theodore Bikel)
The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace. (Quote by - Gustav Heinemann)
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. (Quote by - Wilhelm Reich)
The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself. (Quote by - Steve Buyer)
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. (Quote by - Samuel Alito)
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation. (Quote by - Gloria Estefan)
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader. (Quote by - Bill Owens)
I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding. (Quote by - Tom Selleck)
Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole. (Quote by - John W. Snow)
Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world. (Quote by - Shinichi Suzuki)
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. (Quote by - David Hackworth)
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet. (Quote by - John Lynch)
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all. (Quote by - Nick Cave)
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. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. (Quote by - Henry James)
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future. (Quote by - Alberto Moravia)
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. (Quote by - George Meredith)
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm. (Quote by - Tom Allen)
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. (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir)
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. (Quote by - James Monroe)
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. (Quote by - Dennis Potter)
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." (Quote by - Stephen Crane)
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. (Quote by - Charlotte Bunch)
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. (Quote by - Dave Reichert)
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. (Quote by - Hillary Clinton)
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. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle. (Quote by - Lee Scott)
Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us. (Quote by - Sarah Palin)
I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild. (Quote by - Saxby Chambliss)
The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government. (Quote by - Stephen Harper)
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. (Quote by - Hillary Rodham Clinton)
We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens. (Quote by - Robert. L. Ehrlich)
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. (Quote by - James Monroe)
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. (Quote by - David Soul)
I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers. (Quote by - Mickey Kaus)
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. (Quote by - Jose Saramago)
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life. (Quote by - Cat Stevens)
When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety. (Quote by - Byron Dorgan)
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. (Quote by - Anna Julia Cooper)
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. (Quote by - Joe Lieberman)
He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. (Quote by - Shel Silverstein)
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. (Quote by - Jon Corzine)
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try. (Quote by - Hakeem Olajuwon)
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are. (Quote by - Julian McMahon)
I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life. (Quote by - Andrew Jackson)
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. (Quote by - P. D. James)
The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. (Quote by - Jonathan Dimbleby)
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself. (Quote by - Ang Lee)
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people. (Quote by - Tom Brokaw)
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. (Quote by - Seth Low)
Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me. (Quote by - (Quote by - John Trumbull)
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? (Quote by - Tom G. Palmer)
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart. (Quote by - Kevin Costner)
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one. (Quote by - Sidney Poitier)
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. (Quote by - Richard Shelby)
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. (Quote by - Richard Perle)
I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working. (Quote by - Alphonso Jackson)
