Obligation quotes

Discover insightful quotes and words that explore the essence of obligation, reflecting its transformative power and the responsibility it entails. Dive into a collection that inspires and encourages growth.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

- Jose Saramago

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

- Vito Fossella

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

- Louis Freeh

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

- Ward McAllister

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

- George Meredith

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

- Tom G. Palmer

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.

- Doc Hastings

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

- David Guterson

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

- Lee Scott

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

- John W. Snow