Obligation Quotes - Page 33

• We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try.

  Barack Obama

  Justice, Evil, Community

  "CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Men, Gpa

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes and Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

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• The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

  Clarence Thomas

  Responsibility, Jeans, Dancing

  Clarence Thomas (1992). “Clarence Thomas -- Confronting the Future: Selections from the Senate Confirmation Hearings and Prior Speeches”, Gateway Books

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• Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.

  Rory Vaden

  Self, People, Highest

  Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.121, Penguin

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• I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Speaks Out, Keys, Moral

  "Leonardo DiCaprio Named Messenger of Peace by U.N." by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. September 16, 2014.

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• ... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Education, Responsibility, Doe

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• Let us be different in our homes. Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing, we have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their "rightness." The whole world will tell them what's wrong with them--out loud and often. Our job is to let our children know what's right about them.

  Adele Faber

  Jobs, Children, Home

  Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish (2012). “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

  Warren Buffett

  Share, Figures, Goods And Services

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• You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.

  Jonah Hill

  Promise, Feels, Trusting You

  "Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2012.

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• If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Character, Giving

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

  Burton J. Hendrick

  Brother, Physicians, Firsts

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• If you truly believe that what you have is useful and valuable to your clients, then you have a moral obligation to try to serve them in every way possible.

  Jay Abraham

  Believe, Trying, Clients

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• When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.

  Francis Chan

  Ends, Loving Him

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.103, David C Cook

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• Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

  Baltasar Gracian

  Commitment, Slave, Devices

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• All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Names, Chinese

  Norman Cousins (1962). “In Place of Folly”

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• Our greatest obligation to our children is to prepare them to understand and to deal effectively with the world in which they will live and not with the world we have known or the world we would prefer to have.

  Grayson L. Kirk

  Children, World, Deals

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• Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Want, Return

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• You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Ashamed

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• We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

  Halford Luccock

  People, Life And Death, Interesting

  "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

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• I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reality, Media, People

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• Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Pleasure

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• Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

  Lajos Kossuth

  May, Ethics, Morality

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• Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.

  Suzanne Curchod

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• Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Freedom, Yield

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• An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Constrain

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