Obligations
“Do your duty, and put yourself into the hands of the gods.”
—Pierre Corneille
“You can, for you ought to.”
—Goethe
“Duty is what no one else will do at the moment.”
—Penelope Fitzgerald
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie / Which we ascribe to heaven.”
—William Shakespeare
“What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.”
—Alain de Botton
“Not for ourselves alone are we born.”
—Cicero
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
—John Stuart Mill
“Our job as artists is to always strive to be a punctuation mark in history.”
—Takashi Murakami
“A company's job isn't to empower people; it's to remind people that they walk in the door with power and to create the conditions for them to exercise it.”
—Patty McCord
“He felt a comfort in irretrievably committing himself, and exchanging the burden of indecision for the burden of responsibility.”
—William Dean Howells
“Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.”
—Thomas Paine
“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
—George Washington
“I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.”
—Neil Gaiman
“Train a child up on the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
—Proverbs 22:6