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Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. — Stephen Carter

Your Potential is an OBLIGATION.Its what you MUST be,do and have because you CAN. You Can, you Must, You will — Fela Durotoye

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family. — Elizabeth Edwards

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. — Charlotte Bunch

I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then. — Matt Bomer

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. — John D. Rockefeller

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. — Condoleezza Rice

If someone doesn't ask, you don't have a moral obligation to say every thought that pops in your head. — Tim Gunn

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it. — Simon Callow

I think I have an obligation to be kind to people in general, otherwise I'll feel crappy about myself. — Charlyne Yi

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me. — D.G. Kaye

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun! — Joss Whedon

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill. — Hiram Rhodes Revels

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. — Edmund Burke

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind. — Warren Buffett

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. — Dave Reichert

To be religious is to have an obligation to a particular religion, but to be truly spiritual is to have a commitment to your soul.-Serena Jade — Serena Jade

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere. — Barbara Corcoran

Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever. — Douglas Adams

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. — Jose Marti

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will? — Edward Abbey

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith

Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field. — James Comey

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. — Truman Capote

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

He knew vaguely that he did not want the nurse to die at that moment, even though it was certainly its right and possibly its obligation to do so. — Robert A. Heinlein

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. — James Monroe

People in love act much differently than people with a sense of obligation. — Francis Chan

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation. — Bob Ufer

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. — Ban Ki-moon

Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action.... — G.E. Moore

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

Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church. — Dallin H. Oaks

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance. — Michael Ruhlman

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others. — Jodi Picoult

Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more. — Patrick Rothfuss

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

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it. — John Lewis

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle. — Lee Scott

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. — Henry James

Our sacrosanct obligation is to tend to our own personal wounds and furiously love the entire world irrespective if the world loves us back. — Kilroy J. Oldster

What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don't you agree? — Neil Gaiman

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation. — Mike Vallely

Man always travels along precipices ... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. — Pope John Paul II

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement. — Pierre Charron

Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. — William J. Clinton

I am not sure I can live this life of obligation any longer. I am not good enough. — Veronica Roth

The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim. — Anonymous

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters. — Kristin Armstrong

We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION. — Chester W. Nimitz

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing. — Jude Law

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled. — Connie Stevens

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste. — Robert A. Heinlein

If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? — Chuck Klosterman

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. — Jean Rostand

Happiness is a moral obligation. — Dennis Prager

The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work. — Sunday Adelaja

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged. — Rebecca Solnit

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile. — Wendy Williams

I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host's wishes in ever way. — Bram Stoker

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. — Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

8Owe nothing to anyone - except for your obligation to love one another. If — Anonymous

The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice. — Bill Vaughan

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge. — Samuel Richardson

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations. — Ibn Khaldun

The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive. — Ralph Waite

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people. — Vladimir Putin

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies. — Henry Fielding

Commitment is easy before a relationship requires compromise and obligation. — Padma Lakshmi

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. — Ivan Illich

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. — Ugo Betti

I want to be special to someone again. To know I'm cared for, and not out of obligation. — Alexa Riley

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself. — Miguel De Cervantes

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other. — David Ehrenfeld

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad. — Morgan Brittany

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera. — Lou Holtz

All duties depend as regards the kind of obligation (not the object of their action) upon the one principle. — Immanuel Kant

If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. — Cassandra Clare

A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets. — Alexis Tsipras

It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones. — Sergey Lavrov

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

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds ... to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation. — Ellison Onizuka

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

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can. — Gary Oldman

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful. — John Lewis

they won't help a hurt man up from the gutter due to the obligation it imposes. — Philip K. Dick

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department. — Melanne Verveer

When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation. — Terence McKenna

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation. — Gloria Estefan

Many people give out of obligation and compulsion, which leads to resentment. — Henry Cloud