Quotes about Obligation

Your King and Country need you.

Every man shall bear his own burden.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

We [God] charge not any soul save to its capacity.

The borrower is servant to the lender.

We need to be patient with him." "As he's patient with them?" "No, as God is patient with us. Contrary to what you're thinking right now, Atretes shouldn't be your first concern. Our first obligation is to the Lord." "I know, but..." "You know, but are you acting according to what you know or what you feel?"

It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

God never accepts a good inclination instead of a good action, where that action may be done; nay, so much the contrary, that, if a good inclination be not seconded by a good action, the want of that action is made so much the more criminal and inexcusable.South'sSermons.3. Agency