Quotes of Obligation - somelinesforyou

“ We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah. ”

- Richard Bach

“ 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

“ 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

“ I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. ”

- Hillary Clinton

“ The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. ”

- Humphry Davy

“ Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. ”

- Margaret Mitchell

“ Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. ”

- George Meredith

“ The main obligation is to amuse yourself. ”

- Sydney Joseph Perelman

“ In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. ”

- Hillary Clinton

“ If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. ”

- Marion Wright Edelman

“ Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ”

- William Feather

“ Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“ Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me. ”

- Maurice Maeterlinck

“ It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. ”

- Leonard Orr

“ Foreign travel is like a pleasant temporary death, relieving you of responsibilities and familiar duties. ”

- Robinson Jeffers

“ I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you. ”

- Bill Withers

“ My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing. ”

- Jude Law

“ War correspondents... see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others. ”

- Margaret Bourke White

“ This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt. ”

- Earl Wilson

“ He who promises runs in debt. ”

- Talmud

“ If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself. ”

- Unknown

“ My responsibility is not to say 'do exactly what I've done.' It's just to say this is what I did. ”

- Brooke Shields
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