Quotes about Obligation

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).

Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.

remember, you cannot decline and neglect your duty, to your own hurt alone; many will be losers by it as well as you.

As my father, St. Francis, put it, when the heart is pure, "Love responds to Love alone" and has little to do with duty, obligation, requirement, or heroic anything. It is easy to surrender when you know that nothing but Love and Mercy is on the other side.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.