100 Quotes About Obligation

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.

لطالما كرهت الرضوخ والجبرية وتبجحت بأنني سأصنع حياتي بنفسي، لكن الحياة التي تحديتها قالت كلمتها، وصرخت بوجهي، "أنت مخطئ، أنا هنا وحدي من يقرر".

She cannot escape marriage; it is her sacred Hindu duty, just as giving her away in marriage was her father’s sacred Hindu duty. Like Indian Independence, marriage is her ultimate ‘Tryst with Destiny,’ and it is not in her hand to escape her preordained and compulsory fate. A marriageable daughter is the lowest common denominator in the giant scheme of things.

Your sacred obligation is to obey God.

Obeying God is a holy obligation.

I know the vision you dreamed of for this nation and I know I may have destroyed it. But my first obligation is not to the unborn people of this country's future, but the people who are suffering now, who pass their days in fear because of the war that you have brought to their doorstep.

Life — for me — is neither good nor bad, neither a theory nor an idea. Life is a reality, and the reality of life is war. For one who is a born warrior, life is a fountain of joy, for others it is only a fountain of humiliation and sorrow. I no longer demand carefree joy from life. It couldn’t give it to me, and I would no longer know what to do with it now that my adolescence is past...

the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.