Top Obligation Quotes

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.

Obligation Definition

(n.) The act of obligating.

(n.) That which obligates or constrains; the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law; that which constitutes legal or moral duty.

(n.) Any act by which a person becomes bound to do something to or for anouther, or to forbear something; external duties imposed by law, promise, or contract, by the relations of society, or by courtesy, kindness, etc.

(n.) The state of being obligated or bound; the state of being indebted for an act of favor or kindness; as, to place others under obligations to one.

(n.) A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things.

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

Reason forbade me many things which,Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.

Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any other thing she would have pardoned: infidelity, indifference, cruelty, any sins of manhood's capric...

Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing?You answered...I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to...

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.

The weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

I didn't find out until I became a father. You don't just LOVE your children. You FALL in love with them.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of...

Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.

The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.