Top 375 Obligation Quotes

Charities who support animal rights are actually asking people to show their obligation by doing fundraising or similar.

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.

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they’re not all mean-spirited.

Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few – it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.

You don’t ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.

An embedded growth obligation is how fast a structure has to grow in order to maintain its honest positions.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

If we’re going to continue making advances up there in space, then we have an obligation to do the same down here on Earth.

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

I think migration is a right, but it should be an option, not an obligation.

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice’s operations.

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

You cheat yourself when you don’t do what it is you’re supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

It is simply a moral obligation to make sure our nation’s heroes have a home to return to at night.

I don’t feel an obligation to go by the rankings – we all know how those rankings are produced anyway. I want to go out there and fight the money fight.

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital… with God’s creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.

I’m all about living however you want, but if you make the decision to get married and have children, then you have an obligation to raise them in an environment that isn’t going to ruin them, warp their perception of the world, or close doors for them.

The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president’s obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that’s what he’s gonna do.

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don’t normally describe their kind of music. You just say, ‘It’s so and so, or it’s so and so.’ But with bands, everyone feels an obligation to categorize them.

My only obligation as a professional is to be prepared and be as good as I can be at my position.

I grew up always thinking that fighting for justice was our obligation, whether that’s giving your voice to something, serving as a verbal advocate for someone, or physically being in spaces or occupying space to make and create change.

As a German, in view of the history of World War II and the terrible deeds of the Nazi period, I feel a special obligation to help as much as I can to develop European-Israeli relations and thus contribute to ensuring Israel’s future and existence.

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you’ve done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets – let people know what’s going on.

But no, I’m not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who’s going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don’t have as much good fortune as others.

God primes the pump of obligation.

As candidates and elected officials, we have an obligation to be honest.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Nothing is more important to those of us at CIA than our obligation to earn the trust of our fellow citizens.

Congress has an obligation to make controversial decisions on how to handle undocumented immigration. Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have refused to take the tough votes on the issue for decades. Whether it’s been to take advantage of cheap labor or for political purposes, both sides are guilty.

For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty.

Your only true obligation in a gang is to be committed and be there when your brothers need you.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best interests of the child.

I’m a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I’m never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

It seems like an obligation if you have it so good. You have to spread the wealth.

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.

After Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

If citizens and those in the communities where Islamic terror festers are willing to take the risk of engaging and reporting suspicions, authorities have an absolute obligation to take their concerns seriously.

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.

North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian nightmare that North Koreans face.

We also have to think as fighters, celebrities – whatever you want to call us – that we have an obligation to point out stuff that’s just completely wrong.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

We have an obligation to provide a return for our shareholders.

Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

Those who have prospered and profited from life’s lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

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.

I believe that we do have an obligation to leave the world a better place than we found it.

I believe that every human being has a right to shelter. I also believe that when we provide that shelter, you have an obligation to use it, and I enforced that.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn’t even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we’re going to stop it.

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn’t say I’m entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

Interviewers, even the ones that support the person they’re interviewing, have an obligation to probe further and push back when a candidate says something dangerous.