Obligation Quotes - Page 14

• If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation-an opportunity for growth, for full Self expression, for lifting your lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea you ever had about you, and for ultimate reunion with God through the communion of your two souls-if you take that vow instead of the vows you've been taking-the relationship has begun on a very good note.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.112, Penguin

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• Many who think that they are taking life seriously are actually only taking themselves seriously. Who takes himself seriously is over conscious of his rights; who takes life seriously is fully conscious of his obligations.

  Joseph T. O'Callahan

  Life, Thinking, Rights

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• Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. . . . We believe that charity must begin at home. Can we hope to be charitable to the stranger if love does not abound in the family? A sure step in the direction of improvement and progress in our own lives comes when we share with mother or father in their dependence as they shared with us in their productive years.... We cannot as children ignore our obligations to our parents by passing responsibility for their care to others. . . .

  Henry D. Moyle

  Life, Christian, Mother

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• I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Moving, Butterfly

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Mistake, Divorce, Facts

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• Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Past, Journey, Space

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• Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer . . . is under a duty to act as a person of independent ethical concern with obligations not only to his client's interests but also to fairness and justice in the management of affairs.

  Harry Jones

  Character, Independent, Justice

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• When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

  Josef Albers

  Jobs, Teaching, Years

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• The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Thinking, Sound, Moments

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• Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

  Michael Polanyi

  Responsibility, Exercise, Principles

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• We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

  Richard Shelby

  Running, Cutting, Iraq

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• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Writing, Ideas, Evil

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• I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations

  Robert E. Lee

  Father, War, Fall

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.45, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

  Robert Grudin

  Giving, Mind, Attention

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?

  Joyce Meyer

  Church, Going To Church, Looks

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• Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

  Anderson Cooper

  Justice, Guilt, Clients

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• When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Children, Self, Parent

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• I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place.

  Ronald Perelman

  God, Believe, Play

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• Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

  Neville Cardus

  May, Entertainment, Distrust

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Autobiography”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through them and find solutions that are mutually satisfactory to every stakeholder in the problem... most of our problems on this earth are created by us and therefore we have the capacity and the obligation to unmake them.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Earth, Might, Taught

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• Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Corporations, Corruption, Social

  Speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, May 19, 2005.

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• The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Night, Giving, Enemy

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• Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

  Grace Napolitano

  Reform, Able, Social

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• I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, People, Want

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.52, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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