Fulfilling Obligations Quotes

You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

My duty is to obey orders.

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

If you are elected to do a job, you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability.

Duty is the essence of manhood.

Do after election as before election you said you would.

When I say something, I generally stick to it, no matter what it is in life.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

I just show up and do what I'm supposed to do.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

I know this sounds corny, but if I give you my word I am going to do something, you can take it to the bank. Whether that means if my giving my word puts me in a detrimental position, I'm still going to follow through on my word, and I'll let the pieces fall where they may.

When a man says his word is as his bond - get his bond.

The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.