100 Quotes About Obligation

Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the spouse, romantic partner, concerned friend, parent, or child, you still bring something precious to the table - something the addict depends on. What do you bring? You bring an “obligation by association.

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way,

The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

The voting system is not just political; it is economic and social and educational. It is omnipresent and omniscient. And it is fallible. Yet, when a structure is broken, we are fools if we simply ignore the defect in favor of pretending that our democracy isn’t cracking at the seams. Our obligation is to understand where the problem is, find a solution, and make the broken whole again.

Simple men do great things simply because they do not purport to see anything grand in their efforts. They only see the responsibility of living life in keeping with the gift that it is. And that is greatness indeed.