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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A man said to the universe 'Sir, I exist' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'

– Stephen Crane

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

– Hillary Rodham Clinton

A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

– John Tillotson

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

– John Tillotson

A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the Universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

– Stephen Crane

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

– Cicero

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

– John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.

– John D. Rockefeller Jr.

I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.

– Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 2

I'm under obligation to my demons. To find them where they lie and cast them out accordingly

– Ahmed Korayem

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

– Marian Wright Edelman

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

– Louis K. Anspacher

My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.

– Ronald Reagan

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

– Bette Midler

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

– Justice Anthony Kennedy

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

– John Dalberg

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

– John Dalberg

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

The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.

– Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience

There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities.

– Publius Celsus

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

– Richard Bach

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

– Richard Bach

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