Obligation Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Benjamin Franklin
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Barack Obama
• George Washington
• Pablo Picasso
• Neil Armstrong
• Michael Jackson
• Ronald Reagan
• Carl Lewis

• 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.

  Shel Silverstein

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Obligation

• My first obligation is my job. It’s very hard to really get into campaign mode when you’ve got to focus on doing the work.

  Claire McCaskill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation, Really

• 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.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  Samuel Ward McAllister

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation

• I think you have an obligation to be honest.

  Charles Barkley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation, Honest

• If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We’re under a huge obligation to be successful.

  Toby Young

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation, Leap

• 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.

  Edward Grey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Belgium, Neutrality, Obligation

• We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

  Robert L. Ehrlich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Safety, Obligation

• 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.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Suffering, Obligation

• 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.

  Carl Hubbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation, People

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  A.P. Martinich

  Topics in God

  Tags in Obligation

• You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, you’re going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they don’t want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.

  A. J. Hawk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Hopefully, Obligation

• 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.

  Theodore Bikel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Toward, Imposes, Obligation, Certain, Human

• I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation, Public

• 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.

  Christian Bale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation, Deadline, Giving, Muscles

• I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

  Tom Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Protect, Obligation, Harm, Moral

• Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

  John Ruskin

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Obligation, Responsibility, Duty, Time

• 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?

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Effort, Family

  Tags in Obligation, Discipline, Head

• 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.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Political, Obligation, Administer, Carefully

• 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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obligation, State, Able