Obligation Quotes - Page 17

• You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

  Marla Gibbs

  Cheat

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• Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

  Morgan Brittany

  Kids, Hollywood, Watches

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• I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day

  Tom Berenger

  Summer, Real, Kids

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• Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Football, Morality

  "Vidal Sassoon: this much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

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• As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.

  Robert D. Hales

  Law, Covenant, Sacred

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• I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

  Michael Ruhlman

  Believe, Cooking, Add

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• Life often feels like a great pile of obligations, frustrations, and disappointments. But the Lord is there, always the same, His arms still outstretched. When we feel overwhelmed, we have to remember the peace He has spoken to us on previous occasions. His peace brings comfort and strength; the world cannot give that to us.

  Kathleen H. Hughes

  Disappointment, Frustration, Giving

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• The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Privilege, Economic

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.182, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only the long-standing obligation of the Nation to its veterans, but also as the best recruiting incentives we can offer to keep our armed forces strong and sharp.

  Lane Evans

  Strong, Educational, Cutting

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• Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

  Pope John Paul II

  Travel, Men, Balance

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• Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Women, Saint, Natural

  "The letters of Evelyn Waugh".

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• Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

  Rajneesh

  Expectations, Mind, Demand

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• A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has no obligation to you. But if you live without intentions, without expectations, then miraculously you find that everything that you ever dreamed of is being fulfilled. The moon is reflected in the lake - the lake never asked it, the moon never intended it. Existence goes on spontaneously. Don't bring your desire, your ambition and your expectation; they are the disturbing points. They create a chaos in your mind.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Frustration, Moon

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• You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Expectations, Frustrated

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• If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind that creates those expectations. If you come to me, never come with expectations, otherwise you will be disappointed - because I have no obligation to fulfill your expectations in any way. In fact, if I see that there are some expectations, I do things DELIBERATELY to destroy those expectations. That is the price you have to pay to be with me.

  Rajneesh

  Expectations, Mind, Pay

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• I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Life, Death, Pain

  "Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".

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• It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

  Edward Abbey

  Independent, Honor, Doe

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, World Literature, Certain

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• It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Notable, Constitution

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• Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

  George Washington

  Religious, Individual Happiness, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.369

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• 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.

  James Madison

  Country, Eye, Justice

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.473

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• I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Heaven, Faithful

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted to mean that we will not honour international obligations. I want to say for the purpose of the record that there is nothing that has been said on behalf of the Government of India which in the slightest degree indicates that the Government of India or the Union of India will dishonour any international obligations it has undertaken.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Government, India

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• What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Brother, Children

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• You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Differences, Making A Difference, World

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