Quotes about Obligation

If you find yourself cluttered up and done in by disorganization, ask yourself why you seem to hang on to everything that comes your way. Do you feel obligated to keep it just because someone gave it to you? Of course, we don't want to hurt people's feelings, but on the other hand, if a gift is given correctly, it comes with no strings attached. If someone truly gives you a gift, it should be yours to do with as you please.

working for your daed every day was like going to the dentist to get a root canal.

The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.

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

To live without duties is obscene.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Every day carries with it a responsibility.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.