Quotes about Obligation
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
- Charles Dickens
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.
- Paulo Coelho
God gave him a work to do. He commissioned him to be a watchman on the walls.
- David Jeremiah
It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
- Edith Wharton
Seems to me it all boils down to one thing. Was this fellow we're supposing about under any obligation to the other party - the one he was trying to buy the property from?' Ralph hesitated. 'Only the obligation recognized between decent men to deal with each other decently.' Mr. Spragg listened to this with the suffering air of a teacher compelled to simplify upon his simplest question.
- Edith Wharton
Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
- Edmund Burke
An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.
- Albert Camus
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
- Albert Einstein
If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the People to the intention of their agents.
- Alexander Hamilton
The distance which many of the representatives will be obliged to travel, and the arrangements rendered necessary by that circumstance, might be much more serious objections with fit men to this service, if limited to a single year, than if extended to two years.
- Alexander Hamilton