Obligation Quotes

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people’s time, not one’s own.

We are never quits with those who oblige us, for when we don’t owe them money we owe them gratitude.[On n’est jamais quitte envers ceux qui nous ont obligés; car lorsque l’on ne leur doit plus l’argent, on leur doit la reconnaissance.]

I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Great obligations do not make grateful, but revengeful; and when a small kindness is not forgotten, it becometh a gnawing worm.[Grosse Verbindlichkeiten machen nicht dankbar, sondern rachsüchtig; und wenn die kleine Wohlthat nicht vergessen wird, so wird noch ein Nage-Wurm daraus.]

Do clear them too, or we shall be obliged to think ill of somebody.