#Obligation Quotes

“If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.”

“Every claim creates an obligation.”

“Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.”

“The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.”

“Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.”

“The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.”

“We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.”

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...”

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

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”

“Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.”

“The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.”

“I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”

“No obligation to do the impossible is binding.”

“Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.”

“There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.”

“We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.”

“Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.”

“And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.”

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”

“Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.”

“Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.”

“Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded,but is commanded because it is beneficial.”

“If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.”

“It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.”

“If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try”