Obligation Quotes - Page 28

• Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Opportunity, Joy

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• My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

  Claire McCaskill

  Jobs, Focus, Campaigns

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• I have a lot of obligations.

  Isaac Mizrahi

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• America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

  Peter Welch

  Football, America, Political

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• If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

  Peter Welch

  Thinking, People, Pay

  "Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia, the Islamic law, is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’

  Anjem Choudary

  Islamic, Punishment, Law

  "Anjem Choudary says woman who organised Muhammed cartoon contest should face death penalty under Sharia Law" by Christopher Bucktin, www.mirror.co.uk. May 7, 2015.

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• When a drug comes in from Canada, I wanna make sure it cures ya, not kill ya... I've got an obligation to make sure our government does everything we can to protect you. And one - my worry is that it looks like it's from Canada, and it might be from a third world.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Worry, Drug

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• We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  Ja Rule

  Growing Up, Believe, Thinking

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

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• We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful...
  The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one

  John Lachs

  Dream, Years, Land

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• It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Grief, Soup Kitchens, Cyprus

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• At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.

  Peter Farb

  Pay, Sacred, Groups

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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• Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.

  Randy Komisar

  Passion, Tough Times, Connections

  Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.93, Harvard Business Press

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• It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Two, Corporations, Economic

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Motherhood, Men

  'Getting Married' (1911) preface 'The Right to Motherhood'

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Patience, Space, Challenges

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• When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.

  Eric Thomas

  Opportunity, Thinking, Effort

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

  Mark Twain

  Men, Miles, Discharge

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Opportunity, People

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• The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Race, White, Atrocities

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Independent, Self

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• The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Neutrality, Host, Belgium

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• Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

  Alberto Moravia

  Law, Custodians, Generations

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• I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

  Fernando Botero

  Painting, Pleasure, Found

  "10 Things You Didn’t Know About Colombian Artist Fernando Botero" by Veronique de Miguel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Happiness is a moral obligation

  Dennis Prager

  Moral, Moral Obligation

  Dennis Prager (2009). “Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Grace, Body

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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