Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Obligation. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Obligation Quotes and Sayings from 94 influential authors, including Ella Wheeler Wilcox,Benjamin Disraeli,Max Anders,George Washington Goethals,Mahatma Gandhi, for you to enjoy and share.

Love is the only duty that we know ... By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Love Duty

Duty cannot exist without faith. By Benjamin Disraeli Duty Faith Exist

Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community. By Max Anders Community Duties Exist Simply Part

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results. By George Washington Goethals Knowledge Life Duties Essential Part

The true source of rights is duty. By Mahatma Gandhi Duty True Source

Two Obligations [10w] We've got two obligations in this world:Love and Poetry. By Beryl Dov Love Poetry Obligations World

Every day carries with it a responsibility. By Joseph B. Wirthlin Responsibility Day Carries

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work. By Claire Mccaskill Job Obligation Work Hard Campaign

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself. By Oscar Wilde Duty Oneself Expects

Whenever you make a promise, you have a responsibility to that promise. By Deion Sanders Promise Make Responsibility

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. By Jonah Hill Feel Obligation Trusting Promise

Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfil obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. -Robert A. Heinlein By Christopher G. Nuttall Duty Confuse People Expect Utterly

What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. By Giuseppe Mazzini Duty Important Parent

In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others. By Pope Benedict Xvi Freedom Duties Choices Made Correlation

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations. By Dennis Prager Obligations Personal Society Obsessed Survive

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. By Pearl S. Buck Duty Word Restore Full Meaning

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands. By Martin Luther King Jr. Thing Obligation God Hands Rest

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will? By Norman Schwarzkopf Rough Sense Duty Things

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being ... By Benjamin Constant Duty Binds Laws Socalled Corrupting

A man is born into certain relationships and as a result has certain duties. For instance, he has a duty of loyalty to his lord, a filial duty to his parents, a duty to help his friends, and a duty of common humanity towards his fellow beings. By Lao-Tzu Duty Duties Man Born Relationships

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. By Ugo Betti Accepted Bound Obligation Freely

Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to the land By Aldo Leopold Conscience Obligations Land Meaning Problem

Our duties - are the rights of others over us. By Friedrich Nietzsche Duties

You don't change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession. By Brian Houston Obligation Obsession Change World Glorious

Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. By Joseph B. Wirthlin Duty Expects

You born with three obligations: to love, to live, and to be happy. By Debasish Mridha Obligations Love Live Happy Born

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. By Albert Camus Duty Love

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force. By Ashim Shanker Obligation Penalty Threat Force Effective

any right is always coupled with a responsibility By Marjan Van Den Belt Responsibility Coupled

Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility. By Brad Warner Stuff Obligation Money Object Possessions

Duty is not collective; it is personal. By Calvin Coolidge Duty Collective Personal

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. By Thomas Paine Possess Man Duty Guarantee

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. By Decimus Laberius Liberty Place Obligation Sell

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest. By John Wilkins Interest Properly Duty

The function of art is to struggle against obligation. By Amedeo Modigliani Obligation Function Art Struggle

The need is necessary. By Lailah Gifty Akita

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty. By Albert Camus Duty Uncompromising Maintains Sense

There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it. By Mary Abigail Dodge Generally Thing Duty People Meeting

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be. By James Anthony Froude Divine Morality Command Obligation Rests

Necessity is a mother. By David Carr Necessity Mother

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M. By Joss Whedon Obligation Press Stay Dancing

My duty is to obey orders. By Stonewall Jackson Orders Duty Obey

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. By Jean De La Bruyere Duty Grain Strictly Obliged Seldom

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules By Terence Mckenna Obligation Spiritual Task Rules Simple

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. By Dag Hammarskjold Responsibility Task Duty Moment Suspect

When you promise something, you must fulfill it. By Haile Gebrselassie Promise Fulfill

Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. By Mother Teresa Duty Thing Personal Knowing Action

Responsibility comes with every relationship. By Kenneth Eade Responsibility Relationship

The first obligation of all human beings is to be happy. The second obligation, is to make others happy. By Cantinflas Happy Obligation Human Make

RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me. Embrace the opportunity for service based in love. By Mary Anne Radmacher Responsibility Fulfill Obligations Past Posts

The need is what is necessary. By Lailah Gifty Akita

The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. By Ursula K. Le Guin Rule Acts Responsible Duty Individual

Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence. By Immanuel Kant Mankind Duties Conditional Unconditional Purely

... the reciprocal obligation from man to man holds the first rank; what regards ourselves, ought to be considered relatively to the influence that we may possess over the destiny of others... By Germaine De Stael Man Rank Reciprocal Obligation Holds

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life. By Dick Murphy God Obligation Suppose Family Community

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. By Robert A. Heinlein Duty Voluntarily Debt Owe Fulfill

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation ... By Samuel Johnson Friendship Obligation Sequel

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment. By Penelope Fitzgerald Duty Moment Noone

You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations. By Robert Mapplethorpe Obligations Life Live

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility. By Russell Kirk Duty Responsibility Married Freedom Owes

What obligation is more binding than to protect the cherished, to defend whoever or whatever cannot defend itself, and to nurture in turn that which has given nourishment? I'm reminded of words written by John Seed, an Australian environmentalist. When he began considering these questions, he believed, "I am protecting the rain forest." But as his thought evolved, he realized, "I am part of the rain forest protecting myself. By Richard Nelson Defend Cherished Nourishment Seed Obligation

Opportunities have often felt like obligations to me. By Kevin Deyoung Opportunities Felt Obligations

Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility. By Ellen Page Responsibility Feel Personal Obligation Social

Duty should be a byproduct. By Brenda Ueland Duty Byproduct

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. By William Faulkner Necessity Pride Obliterating Conduct Delicate

The need is the necessary want. By Lailah Gifty Akita

Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude ... have any possible claim on me. By Jane Austen Duty Honour Gratitude Claim

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been. By Quentin Tarantino Characters Obligation

Commitment is Circumstances By Leju Thomas Circumstances Commitment

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people. By Bob Ney Obligation Provide Commitments People Legal

A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions. By Lysander Spooner Man Original Intrinsically Obligatory Possessions

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity. By Woodrow Wilson Responsibility Opportunity Proportionate

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Obligations Ingratitude Pleasure Returning Small

Duty is the demand of the hour. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Duty Hour Demand

The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to. By Donna Lynn Hope Worst Feeling Speaking Receiving Gift

God primes the pump of obligation. By A. P. Martinich God Obligation Primes Pump

Responsibility is not a feeling, it is a commitment! By Brenda Johnson Padgitt Responsibility Feeling Commitment

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.' By Adrian Rogers Discipline Duty Devotion

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person. By Jean-Paul Sartre Person Individual Duty Accountable Challenge

You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am herebecause I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest, pressing herpalm flat against his rapidly thumping pulse. "I'm obligated by my heart. It'sdecided you're essential to my existence, you see. And it's threatening to go out on labor strike if I don't make you mine this very day. So yes. I am here on bended knee, acting from a deep, undeniable sense of obligation. I am, quite simply, yours." He swallowed hard. "If you'll have me. By Tessa Dare Obligated Feel Lily Chest Pressing

And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would.Katherine clifftonThe English Patient By Michael Ondaatje Unconscionable Suppose Obligation Patient Feel

The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses. By George Eliot Life Idea Mere Duty Recognition

Make a virtue of necessity. By Geoffrey Chaucer Make Necessity Virtue

The promise, therefore, was given, and must be performed. By Jane Austen Promise Performed

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. By Anna Julia Cooper Vice Sacred Obligation Squander Material

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be By Chauncey Wright Fearful Object Longneglected Duty

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. By Arthur Schopenhauer Necessity Classes Ennui Constant Scourge

The greater the obligation in many cases, the deeper the ingratitude. By Robert Barr Cases Ingratitude Greater Obligation Deeper

A sense of duty imprisons you. By Jenny Holzer Sense Duty Imprisons

Respect the burden. By Napoleon Bonaparte Respect Burden

Rights are subordinate to responsibilities. By Len Smith Responsibilities Subordinate

We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity. By John O'donohue Privileged Integrity Duty Privilege Absolute

When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities. By H. Jackson Brown Jr. Responsibilities Declaring Forget

Our aspirations are our responsibilities. By Robert Browning Responsibilities Aspirations

We all have the duty to do good. By Pope Francis Good Duty

Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do. By Epictetus Neighborhoods Workplaces Families Nation Duties

Needs must, and so on. By Kate Atkinson

Necessity is a guardian in Nature. By Leonardo Da Vinci Nature Necessity Guardian

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself. By Henrik Ibsen Sacred Duties Equally

Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them. By Lysander Spooner Moral Duties Doubt Owes Men