Obligation Quotes - Page 2

• Your word is your bond.

  Melvyn Douglas

  Ties, Promise, Power Of Words

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, Purpose, World

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• I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

  Dionne Warwick

  Grandfather, Earth, Able

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• We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Educational, Responsibility

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• To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Gratitude, Grateful, Pride

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• It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

  Henry Fielding

  Friendship, Men, Creating

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.58, Wesleyan University Press

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• The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

  Henry James

  Book, Beer, Winning

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

  Warren Christopher

  Gone, Bosnians, Force

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• I think you have an obligation to be honest.

  Charles Barkley

  Thinking, Honest, Being Honest

  "One-on-One: Charles Barkley talks LeBron, politics, Auburn". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. December 11, 2008.

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• I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

  Ron Silver

  Thinking, Optimist, Ifs

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Pessimistic

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• It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ungrateful People, Scoundrels, Misfortunes

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• Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Important, Favors, Trifling

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• Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Vices, Cost, Sap

  Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Grateful, Men, Remembrance

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.22

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• When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Feelings, Tests

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• Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

  Barack Obama

  School, Responsibility, Investing

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• If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.

  Hugh Prather

  Self, Names, Doe

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.

  Rico Lebrun

  Facts, Theme, Deals

  University of Southern California, Rico Lebrun (1961). “Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961”

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• Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

  Thomas Otway

  Hate, Judging, Too Much

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• A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

  Stephen Crane

  Funny, Men, Political

  "A man said to the universe" l. 1 (1899)

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• Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

  James Cromwell

  Responsibility, Pet, Care

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• A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

  Garrett Hardin

  Sacrifice, Deny

  "Filters Against Folly". Book by Garrett Hardin, 1985.

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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  Ward McAllister

  Dinner Guests, House Guests, Sacred

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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