Quotes about Obligation

If we want to be endowed with rights — real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.

I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place. No responsibility is greater, no obligation more binding than that you rear in love and peace and integrity those whom you have brought into the world.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

Man cannot choose his duties.

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.