Obligation Quotes - Page 20

• I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die.

  Meredith Hall

  Expectations, Decision, Each Day

  Meredith Hall (2007). “Without a Map: A Memoir”, p.217, Beacon Press

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• God is not an obligation or burden. God is the joy of my life!

  Mychal Judge

  Joy, Burden

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• There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

  Brad Stine

  Truth, Differences, Knowing

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• The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Believe, Animal, Catholic

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1955). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”

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• The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Discovery, Blood

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• I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.

  Will Ferrell

  Dream, People, World

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• If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

  John Lewis

  Moral, Fairs, Ifs

  "In Miami MLK Speech, Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Defiant In Feud With Trump" by Tim Padgett, wlrn.org. January 16, 2017.

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• If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Thinking, Today

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• I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

  Al Sharpton

  Moral, Courageous, Feels

  "Sharpton, Sheen visit antiwar camp". www.cnn.com. August 29, 2005.

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• My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.

  Jon Gordon

  Life Is, Life Is A Gift

  Twitter post from Aug 30, 2017

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• The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary, including military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide both political parties.

  Gabriel Kolko

  Military, Party, People

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• True salvation is wholly a work of God. It is said to be both a finished work and a gift, and, therefore, it lays no obligation upon the saved one to complete it himself, or to make after payments of service for it.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Salvation, Said, Payment

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (2016). “Satan: The Devil World”, p.59, 谷月社

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• We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

  Ron Kovic

  Pain, War, Suffering

  "The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq" by Ron Kovic, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2006.

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• You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

  Robert Breault

  Responsibility, Each Day

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• I respect the IBF obligation to fight Povetkin, but I would like the exception to fight David Haye. That is the only title the Klitschkos don't have. We have them all except the WBA, which is why Haye is such an interesting cookie for me to eat.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Interesting, Titles

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• The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

  William J. Clinton

  Future, Opportunity, Inheritance

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• I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This is the most important decision any President or any Senator must make, and it deserves vigorous debate

  Rand Paul

  Military, Decision, Important

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Aug 31, 2013

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• No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

  Martin Luther

  Help And Support, Community, May

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• It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Freedom, Goal, Being Free

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.18, Macmillan

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• There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

  Iggy Azalea

  Thinking, Creating, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowing, Thanks, Coarse

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sky, Tree, Soil

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.441, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.

  Walker Percy

  Eye, Apology, Thinking

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

  Robert Kennedy

  Thinking

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “Bobby Kennedy off-guard”

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• No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Strong, Long, Spirit

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