145 Owed Quotes

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Famous Owed Quotes

Either move or be moved. — Colin Powell

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. — Herman Melville

To plow like a horse / to work like a horse. — Russian Proverbs

Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. — Ambrose Philips

Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.] — Ovid

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. - Lao Tzu

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. — Lao Tzu

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. — Samuel Butler

The ox has one thought, the ploughman another — Greek Proverbs

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. — Seneca The Elder

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. — Seneca

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. — Benjamin Franklin

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. — Ted Turner

The die has been cast. — Julius Caesar

Honor lies in honest toil. — Grover Cleveland

Short Owed Quotes

  • Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another. — Paul the Apostle
  • Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. — Mark Twain
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. — Mark Twain
  • He is rich who owes nothing. — Proverbs
  • I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. — Gary Paulsen
  • Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. — Sophia Loren
  • All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love. — Marquis de Lafayette
  • I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything. — Pope John XXIII
  • All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. — Abraham Lincoln
  • He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. — Jean-Luc Godard

Owed Image Quotes

Owed quote I gotta stop treating people like I owe them something.
I gotta stop treating people like I owe them something.
Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything. - Ralph Marston quote

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything. — Ralph Marston

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts. - John Belushi quote

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts. — John Belushi

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! - Mehmet Murat Ildan quote

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything. - William Carey quote

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything. — William Carey

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance. - Jack Dempsey quote

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance. — Jack Dempsey

Owed quote All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother.
All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother.

Money Owed Quotes

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. — Thomas Aquinas

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are. — Errol Flynn

I haven't had a big-ass feature, somebody put me on a label, cash money didn't come scoop me up. I've literally put myself into millionaire position. All the stuff I've done and I'm doing has nothing to do with nobody. I don't owe anybody anything. No wife, no kids - I don't owe nobody nothin'. — Riff Raff

Owed quote Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.

Look, they have taken our jobs, they have taken our money, and on top of that they have loaned the money to us and we actually pay them interest now on money. We owe China and Japan each $1.4 trillion. — Donald Trump

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger. — Robert Fulghum

How much do I owe you? — Chevy Chase

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. — Jesse H. Jones

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. — Benjamin Franklin

Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured. — Ann Landers

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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is. — Joseph Campbell

How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself. — Robert Plant

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. — Kurt Vonnegut

There's still value in a CD, even if it's just nostalgic. People are still willing to pay. But it can't compare to a digital-only release where you can control the exact time that it'll come out, you know what I mean? So whoever finds how to bridge that gap is gonna make a lot of money. — J. Cole

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

World Owe Quotes

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. — John Wayne

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. — George Washington

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. — John D. Rockefeller

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. — Robert Jones Burdette

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. — Hans Eysenck

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it. - F. F. Bruce

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it. — F. F. Bruce

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. — Pierce Brosnan

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. — Matt Taibbi

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them, and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. — Marcel Proust

Owing A Debt Quotes

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. — Allen Boyd

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. — Barack Obama

Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest. — Mark Kirk

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. — Joseph Butler

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. — Doc Hastings

Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them. — Ogden Nash

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude. — Gary Ross

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. — Publilius Syrus

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression. — Ike Skelton

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities. — Ambrose Bierce

Never Owe Quotes

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky. — Unknown Author

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. - Thomas A. Edison

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. — Thomas A. Edison

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have. — George J. Mitchell

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. — James A. Garfield

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. — Winston Churchill

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — Mahatma Gandhi

it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails. — Niccolo Machiavelli

What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told. — Calvin Coolidge

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code — Martin Fowler

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing. — Albert Camus

Owe Quotes

I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land. — Thabo Mbeki

The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due. — Winston Churchill

I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it. — Branch Warren

I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler

Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust

Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual. If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague. Those who practice homosexuality deprive Germany of the children they owe her. — Sayings

Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second. — John Lennox

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. — Haile Selassie

Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start. — Ruby Bridges

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way. — Erik H. Erickson

I Don't Owe Quotes

God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God. — Rick Warren

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me. — Eric Rohmer

I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create. — Kofi Siriboe

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them. — David Dinkins

I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this. — Daniel Radcliffe

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere. — Roy Acuff

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store. — Merle Travis

I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him. — Larry Holmes

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal. — George W. Bush

Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden. — Elisabeth Murdoch

I Don't Owe You Quotes

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me. — Hank Aaron

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny. — Cindy Sheehan

I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win. — Larry Dixon

I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you. — Bobby Darin

[The Office] is incredible. It's slightly overwhelming because you don't think that anything you do....having anybody enjoy what you do is such a treat and so I know I've said this a hundred times but we owe it all to our writers. — John Krasinski

We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal. — Fannie Lou Hamer

I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear. — Tom Petty

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z. — Bernie Mac

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want. — Todd McFarlane

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world. — Bernie Mac

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More Owed Quotes

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory1 of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity. — David Livingstone

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death? — Eugene V. Debs

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. — David Livingstone

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy. — Vandana Shiva

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk! — Wangari Maathai

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give. — Eglantyne Jebb

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois

You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’. — Erin McKean

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. — Temple Grandin

The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing. — Corey Taylor

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today. — Theodore Roosevelt

Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. — Carl Levin

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself. — Alexander Graham Bell

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