Quotes on Incumbents

God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" . . . Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, ". . . and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant."

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

God Almighty (swt) says: My love is incumbent for those who love each other for Me; who sit together for Me; who visit each other for Me; and who spend on each other for Me.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.