OBLIGATION

Related Subjects: Borrowing, Debt, Duty, Gratitude, Oath, Responsibility, Trust

1. The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent.—JOHN ERSKINE, Title of book
   

2. It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.—FIELDING
   

3. Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.—THOMAS HOBBES
   

4. Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

5. We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

6. Excess of obligations may lose a friend.—Proverb
   

7. If you oblige those who can never pay you, you make Providence your debtor.—Proverb
   

8. Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, This is My Story
   

9. In some there is a kind of graceless modesty that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.—SENECA