Quotes about Obligation

It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

Even if you don't expect anything from life, doesn't life expect something from you?

Listen. There is a sound like the knocking of railway trucks in a siding. That is the happy concatenation of one event following another in our lives. Knock, knock, knock. Must, must, must. Must go, must sleep, must wake, must get up — sober, merciful word which we pretend to revile, which we press tight to our hearts, without which we should be undone. How we worship that sound like the knocking together of trucks in a siding!

As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.

Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.

You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

We have a sacred obligation to support our men and women in uniform.

Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunch of other things because if I don't say no I can't say yes to others.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.