personal obligation Quotes

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.

I think I owe it to the people of Seattle, and myself, to retire as a Mariner.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Who really needs a new album from me?

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

You can't be born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and grow up in South Central near the Black Panthers headquarters and not feel like you've got some kind of social responsibility.

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

Me going to college was not an option.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

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

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons.

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

I always have to do more to contribute to society.